Airway Management in the Emergency Setting - Build up the Elements to Improve Clinical Outcomes of Airway Management

Background: resolution, prediction factors 

Airway management is the care to maintain sufficient ventilation and an unobstructed airway. Airway management is lifesaving for neonatal, baby, children, adults, and elders, and the care of airway is from very beginning when the prehospital emergency personnel contact with an unconscious sufferer to medical professionals handling critically ill and injured patients to secure free airway in the emergency room, critical units, and operating theater.

Importance: Proper airway management is important, because difficult in airway management is life threatening. Prompt airway approach facilitates airway management, decreases complications related to the procedures of an artificial airway establishment, and helps to give proper patient preparation and technique for anticipating or un-anticipating difficult airway in a variety of clinical scenarios. In addition, after secure a free airway, caring of the established airway increases the quality of care.

Goal: This special issue on “Airway management in the emergency setting” of the journal of Signa Vitae (Journal of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, indexed by SCI) is aimed to serve the professionals to spread effective knowledge and share the experience in the care of upper airway obstruction, difficult airways, techniques and devices specialized to maintain airway patency and ventilation, education and training in airway management, and the quality of care in airway intervention.

We accept original articles, review articles, short reports, images, case reports, and letters to the editor. We sincerely invite you to publication your articles in this issue. Your contribution helps us achieve our vision of the project, and upgrades the quality of care of airway management. We would like to thank you with an effective and high-quality review. The deadline for submission of this special issue will be on 31 December 2020. 

Academic editors:

Prof. Dr. Wen-Han Chang, MD, DrPH, MacKay Memorial Hospital, (Emergency)

Dr. Sho-Ting Hung, MD, Taitung MacKay Memorial Hospital, (Clinical Radiology)

Prof. Dr. Hui-Chun Ku, PhD, Fu-Jen Catholic University, (Pharmacology)

Dr. Chia-Hsiang Huang, MD, Chief Physician, Taitung MacKay Memorial Hospital (Anesthesia)

Dr. JERRY CHENG-YEN LAI, PhD, Taitung MacKay Memorial Hospital, (Statistics)

Dr. Ping-Jen Hu, MD, Taitung MacKay Memorial Hospital, (Meta-analysis)

I thank the academic editors above who help me to make sure the quality of the article in statistics, emergency medicine, anesthesia, critical care, and submission of articles to the issues, and so on.