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

Life on the Frontline

Unprepared Airway