GuidelineAnaesthesia2026
Safer prehospital anaesthesia: updated guidelines from the Association of Anaesthetists.
Guideline in Anaesthesia, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Chasing time targets in pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia: is it time to rethink?Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Structured correction after difficult direct laryngoscopy during prehospital rapid sequence intubation: an eleven-year physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service registry study.International journal of emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Post-resuscitation pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia for exchange of a supraglottic airway device with an endotracheal tube - a multicentre observational study.BMC emergency medicine · 2026Observational
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Abstract
introductionPrehospital emergency anaesthesia is recognised as a high-risk clinical intervention. These updated guidelines consider changes in prehospital practice and parallel changes in the practice of in-hospital emergency anaesthesia, with the aim of encouraging standardised safe anaesthetic practice in a challenging clinical area.
methodA working group was set up by the Association of Anaesthetists to include experts and resident doctors working in prehospital emergency medicine, anaesthesia, intensive care medicine and emergency medicine. There was also representation from relevant specialist groups and societies. We used a modified Delphi process and conducted targeted literature reviews to inform recommendations.
resultsWe formulated recommendations in several key areas of prehospital emergency anaesthetic practice including general techniques; sedation before prehospital emergency anaesthesia; personnel and training; equipment and monitoring; prehospital emergency anaesthesia in children; and transport. DISCUSSION: Clinical teams that provide prehospital emergency anaesthesia must be well trained and competent to deliver the procedure to the same standards as their colleagues in the receiving emergency department. Although patients requiring prehospital emergency anaesthesia are often physiologically unstable and have pathology associated with a high mortality, there is good evidence that prehospital emergency anaesthesia can be delivered safely and to high standards.
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