Anaes · Extubation & recovery

Extubation & recovery

Also known as Extubation · Emergence · Laryngospasm · Post-extubation stridor · Airway exchange catheter · Staged extubation · Post-anaesthesia care unit · PACU

The extubation and the recovery are the high-risk phases of the anaesthetic that close the perioperative airway and the consciousness. The framework rests on the recognition of the extubation as the high-risk airway event (the DAS extubation guidelines), the extubation criteria, the awake versus the deep extubation, the extubation of the difficult airway (the planned, the staged, the airway-exchange-catheter, the leak test), the laryngospasm and the post-extubation stridor, the emergence and the emergence agitation, and the recovery-room (the PACU) management of the common complications (the PONV, the pain, the shivering, the hypoxaemia) and the discharge.