Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine Research | Areas of Research Focus

The Anesthesia Advanced Airway Management Research Group is involved in diverse research projects and collaborations. The following are descriptions of projects and collaborations in which the research group is involved:   

• Pediatric Difficult Airway (PeDI) Collaborative is a multicenter, multinational organization of the Society of Pediatric Anesthesia dedicated to assessing, understanding and improving the outcomes of children during airway management and in particular, those children with difficult intubations. We hope to facilitate benchmarking, quality improvement (QI) and research via the PeDI Registry such that the group provides site specific and aggregate data back to sites, augments local quality improvement efforts and facilitates research studies related to pediatric airway management. Members of our research group cofounded the PeDI Collaborative and were instrumental in the development of the registry together with other key individuals from around the world. The Collaborative has published may key studies in airway management and is continually working on further research and QI initiatives.  
• Some of our research group members were either members of or collaborated with the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Task Force on Management of the Difficult Airway and help developed and write the 2022 ASA Difficult Airway Guidelines which for the first time included pediatric specific guidelines. 
• Video laryngoscopy in Small Infants (VISI) Trial was an international, prospective, randomized, multi-center, parallel group trial in infants which compared intubations using direct laryngoscopy versus standard (non-angulated) video laryngoscopy published in The Lancet.