Application of "twelve-step" approach based on SEEK for difficult awake tracheal intubation in patients with cervical spinal tumor.

Difficult airway always occurs in patients with cervical spinal tumor. Awake tracheal intubation (ATI) is usually a primary safe approach for clinical doctors in these intractable difficult airways. It is of great significance to establish specific strategies to reduce related acute airway accidents.

Reintubation during COVID-19 pandemic: a simple self-made guiding device facilitates reintubation and minimizes transmission.

Consensus guidelines to protect airway managers during COVID-19 were developed to encourage safe, accurate and swift performance in intubation and extubation, but reintubation was not considered. With the massive surge of patients requiring mechanical ventilation in this COVID-19 pandemic, great incidence of difficult airways may necessitate reintubation. Equipments could be used now in extubation and reintubation are either too expensive and time-consuming in decontamination, or have not gained wide acceptance.