Sharing our recently published viewpoint on emergency airway management.
We propose the concept of the “Unprepared Airway” — reframing many peri-intubation complications not just as anatomical difficulty, but as failures of physiologic and situational preparation.
Along with this, we introduce an ABCDE preparation framework as a cognitive strategy for safer emergency intubation:
A – Air & oxygenation
B – Blood pressure & hemodynamics
C – Contingency plans
D – Decision & drug modulation
E – Execution & rescue
The aim is to shift the question from “Can I intubate?” to “Is this airway truly prepared?”
Would love to hear thoughts and feedback from the group.
Link to original paper