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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2002, Vol. 88, No. 1 9-11
© 2002 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia

Editorial

Editorial IV

Airway management in the emergency department

J. Nolan and M. Clancy

With the agreement of the Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Anaesthesia and the editors of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this editorial has been published in both journals simultaneously.

In most emergency departments in the UK, tracheal intubation requiring the use of anaesthetic drugs has usually been undertaken by anaesthetists. In contrast, the role of the emergency physician in the management of airway emergencies has been limited to simple airway interventions and intubation of the moribund. There is a general view that a particular clinical procedure (e.g. tracheal intubation) should not be specific to one specialty group, but that whichever specialty group undertakes it the competencies to do so must be the same. The safety of airway management in the resuscitation room will be enhanced greatly by strong cooperation between departments of anaesthesia and emergency medicine.

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