Table 5.
Incidence of complications when asleep or awake tracheal intubation is performed. The rates reported for asleep tracheal intubation include data for all patients, and patients who are predicted to have difficult airway management. The rates reported for awake tracheal intubation are only for patients who are predicted to be at risk of difficult airway management
| Asleep tracheal intubation | Awake tracheal intubation | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| All patients | Predicted difficult tracheal intubation | ||
| Difficult facemask ventilation | 2.2–2.5% | 18.6–22% | Not applicable |
| Impossible facemask ventilation | 0.15% | Not currently available | Not applicable |
| Difficult tracheal intubation | 1.9–10% | 25% | Not applicable |
| Failed tracheal intubation | 0.15% | 0.36%a | 1–2% |
| CICO | 0.04% | 0.75%a | 0–0.06% |
| Front‐of‐neck airway | 0.002–0.07% | 0.12%a | 0–0.38% |
| Death | 0.0006–0.04% | Not currently available | Not currently available |
CICO, cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate.
a
Unpublished data from the Danish Anaesthesia Database.