title: [Management of the difficult airway].
abstract: Difficult airway management (DAM) including cannot intubate and cannot ventilate (CICV), and difficult mask ventilation is a life threatening issue during anesthesia care. Although American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has presented the guideline for this purpose, it is still not available in this country. We as a specialist for airway management should be prepared this trouble any time by equipping a laryngoscope, fiberoptic bronchoscope, and novel devices such as Airway Scope and Airtraq.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hiroshima University and Graduate School, Hiroshima 734-8551.
authors.forename: Masashi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawamoto
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000295:instrumentation