Table 3.
Details of the data collection forms regarding airway management
| Airway management | |
| Items | Contents for reporting |
| Value of SpO2 at the initiation of airway management | % |
| Lowest value of SpO2 during airway management | % |
| Times of attempts to secure the airway per one airway securing procedure | Number of times |
| Reasons to start securing the airway | Scheduled procedure, airway concerns after extubation, desaturation, apnoea, dislodgement of airway devices, obstruction of airway devices, avoiding airway stimulation by airway devices, inadequate ventilation with excessive air-leakage, prevention of aspiration, laryngeal oedema, laryngospasm, bronchospasm, airway trauma, atelectasis formation, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary secretion removal, pneumothorax/pneumomediastinum, unstable haemodynamics, others. |
| Medications administered during airway management | Sevoflurane, desflurane, nitrous oxide, fentanyl, morphine, remifentanil, rocuronium, vecuronium, suxamethonium, sugammadex, midazolam, propofol, thiopental, remimazolam, ketamine, dexmedetomidine atropine, epinephrine, lidocaine (intratracheal, intravenous). |
| Provider’s assigned number | Number |
| Success of securing airway | Success, failure (inadequate exposure of glottic view, unstable haemodynamics, upper airway obstruction/oxygenation failure, unable to insert airway device (proximal or distal site of the vocal cords), excessive air-leakage, oversized airway device, others). |
| Provider’s training level | Residents (junior or senior), fellow (anaesthesia or other), board-certified anaesthesiologists (percentage of paediatric cases among the whole experienced cases over the last 1 year; ≥80%, 50–80%, <50%, other board-certified physicians (emergency medicine, intensive care medicine, others), others (eg, nurse anaesthetists). |
| Postgraduate year of provider | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–9, ≥10 years |
| Route of securing the airway | Oral, nasal, tracheostomy, others |
| Device to secure the airway | Laryngoscope, supraglottic airway devices, video laryngoscope (with or without guide), stylet, non-directed laryngoscope without video monitor, gum elastic bougie/tube exchanger, flex bronchoscope, tracheostomy tube, surgical airway secure, tracheal intubation via supraglottic airway devices. |
| Size of airway device | Number |
| Types of a tracheal tube | Normal, armoured, RAE, double-lumen, others |
| Cuffed tracheal tube | Yes/no |
| Performing cricoid pressure | Yes/no |
| Performing external laryngeal manipulation | Yes/no |
| Performing apnoeic oxygenation | Yes/no |
| POGO score | % |
| Complications during securing airway | None, cardiac arrest (survive, death), laryngospasm, upper airway obstruction, severe cough, endobronchial intubation, oesophageal intubation, vomiting, hypotension, hypertension, tooth injury, pneumothorax, mediastinal emphysema, bronchospasm, atelectasis, pulmonary oedema, stridor, airway trauma, arrhythmia, agitation, dislodgement of airway securing devices, others. |
| Treatment for complications during securing airway | None, sedatives, muscle relaxants, ventilatory support with tracheal tube, bronchodilator, intratracheal suctioning, inhalational epinephrine, intravenous epinephrine, intravenous steroid, atropine, surgical airway secure, cardioversion/defibrillation, inotropes/vasopressors, bolus infusion, anti-arrhythmic medications, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, reversal medications, diuretics, admission to intensive care unit, others. |
POGO, percentage of glottic opening; RAE, right angle endotracheal tubes; SpO2, peripheral capillary oxygenation saturation.