Analysis of the American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) Closed Claims database has demonstrated that although outcomes related to airway complications at the time of intubation have been improving over the last 20 years, the same does not hold true for extubation. As was made evident in the recent Fourth National Audit Project (NAP4) of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in the United Kingdom, one third of major complications of airway management occurred at extubation or in the recovery room, with a mortality rate of 5%.[1]Data such as these have led to increased recognition for the need to develop strategies for safe and successful extubation. Thanks to the ever increasing spectrum of modern day drugs, multiple choices are available to anaesthesiologists to conduct extubations more neatly with minimum
Analysis of the American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) Closed Claims database has demonstrated that although outcomes related to airway complications at the time of intubation have been improving over the last 20 years, the same does not hold true for extubation. As was made evident in the recent Fourth National Audit Project (NAP4) of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in the United Kingdom, one third of major complications of airway management occurred at extubation or in the recovery room, with a mortality rate of 5%.[1]Data such as these have led to increased recognition for the need to develop strategies for safe and successful extubation. Thanks to the ever increasing spectrum of modern day drugs, multiple choices are available to anaesthesiologists to conduct extubations more neatly with minimum