Analysis of malpractice claims highlights that inadequate airway planning and judgment errors contribute to patient harm during difficult tracheal intubation, emphasizing the need for improved skills and system responses.
Outcomes remained poor in recent malpractice claims related to difficult tracheal intubation. Inadequate airway planning and judgment errors were contributors to patient harm. Our results emphasize the need to improve both practitioner skills and systems response when difficult or failed tracheal intubation is encountered.
Joffe et al. (Mon,) studied this question.