Apeksh Patwa

TL;DR: The All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA) proposes a stepwise plan for the safe management of the airway in obstetric patients based on available evidence, and recommendations were arrived at by consensus opinion of airway experts.

TL;DR: Clinical application of anatomical and physiological knowledge of respiratory system improves patient's safety during anaesthesia, optimises patient's ventilatory condition and airway patency and has influence on airway management, lung isolation during anaesthetic, management of cases with respiratory disorders, respiratory endoluminal procedures and optimising ventilator strategies in the perioperative period.

TL;DR: The All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA) aims to provide consensus guidelines for safe airway management in the OR, while attempting to prevent transmission of infection to the OR personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic.

TL;DR: These guidelines have been developed based on available evidence; wherever robust evidence was lacking, recommendations were arrived at by consensus opinion of airway experts, incorporating the responses to a questionnaire sent to members of the AIDAA and the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists.

TL;DR: The All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA) reiterates that extubation is as important as intubation and requires proper planning, and a systematic approach as briefed in the algorithm needs to be complemented with good clinical judgement for an uneventful extubations.