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Scandinavian SSAI clinical practice guideline on pre‐hospital airway management by M. Rehn; P. K. Hyldmo; V. Magnusson; J. Kurola; P. Kongstad; L. Rognås; L. K. Juvet; M. Sandberg is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Background The Scandinavian society of anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine task force on pre‐hospital airway management was asked to formulate recommendations following standards for trustworthy clinical practice guidelines. ## Methods The literature was systematically reviewed and the grading of recommendations assessment, development and evaluation (GRADE) system was applied to move from evidence to recommendations. ## Results We recommend that all emergency medical service (EMS) providers consider to: apply basic airway manoeuvres and airway adjuncts (good practice recommendation); turn unconscious non‐trauma patients into the recovery position when advanced airway management is unavailable (good practice recommendation); turn unconscious trauma patients to the lateral trauma position while maintaining spinal alignment when advanced airway management is unavailable [strong recommendation, low quality of evidence (QoE)]. We suggest that intermediately trained providers use a supraglottic airway device (SAD) or basic airway manoeuvres on patients in cardiac arrest (weak recommendation, low QoE). We recommend that advanced trained providers consider using an SAD in selec

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Author

M. Rehn; P. K. Hyldmo; V. Magnusson; J. Kurola; P. Kongstad; L. Rognås; L. K. Juvet; M. Sandberg

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0001-5172)

Published

2016

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)