Although patients requiring prehospital emergency anaesthesia are often physiologically unstable and have pathology associated with a high mortality, there is good evidence that prehospital emergency anaesthesia can be delivered safely and to high standards.
Safer prehospital anaesthesia: updated guidelines from the Association of Anaesthetists.
David Lockey … Matthew D Wiles
Anaesthesia · 2026
Background
Prehospital emergency anaesthesia is recognised as a high-risk clinical intervention.
Methods
A working group was set up by the Association of Anaesthetists to include experts and resident doctors working in prehospital emergency medicine, anaesthesia, intensive care medicine and emergency medicine.