Herewith a collaborative effort from the airway Twitterati to establish a list of common airway abbreviations:
- AFOI – Awake fibre-optic (or flexible optic) intubation
- ApOX – Apnoeic Oxygenation
- BB – Bronchial blocker
- BVM – Bag/Valve/Mask device (see BVMR)
- BVMR – Bag/Valve/Mask/Reservoir device (see BVM)
- CICO – Can’t intubate, can’t oxygenate (see CICV)
- CICV – Can’t intubate, can’t ventilation (CICO now in use)
- CL – Cormack-Lehane grade
- DL – Direct laryngoscopy
- DLT – Double-lumen endobronchial tube
- DSI – Delayed sequence induction
- ESA – Emegency Surgical Airway (see FONA)
- ETI – Endotracheal intubation
- ETT – Endotracheal tube
- EtCO2 – End-tital carbon dioxide
- EXIT – EX-utero Intrapartum Treatment
- FB – Foreign body
- FETO – Fetal Endoscopic Tracheal Occlusion (or Fetoscopic EndoTracheal Occlusion)
- FiO2 – Fraction of inspired oxygen
- FOI – Fibre-optic intubation
- FONA – Front-of-neck access (see ESA)
- LA – Local anaesthetic
- LMA – Laryngeal Mask Airway (trade name, see SGA etc)
- MAD – Mucosal Atomisation Device
- MP – Mallampati grade
- NPA – Nasopharyngeal airway
- NODESAT – Nasal Oxygenation During Efforts at Secuing A Tube
- OPA – Oropharyngeal airway
- PLA – Perilayngeal airway
- RSI – Rapid sequence induction
- SAD – Supraglottic airway device (see SGA, EGA, XGA)
- SGA – Supraglottic airway (see SAD, EGA, XGA)
- THRIVE – Transnasal, Humidified, Rapid-Insufflatory Ventilatory Exchange
- VL – Video layngoscopy
- XGA – Extraglottic airway (see EGA, SAD, SGA)
Contributions/comments? DM @openaiwayorg or @rosshofmeyr
Thanks to @AirwayMxAcademy for initiating the idea!