Check for updatesAnaesthesia 2022doi:10.1111/anae.15817GuidelinesPreventing unrecognised oesophageal intubation:aconsensus guideline from the Project for UniversalManagement of Airways and international airwaysocieties*N.Chrimes,A.Higgs,2C.A.Hagberg,3 P.A.Baker,4.5R.M.Cooper,6 R.Greif,7.8G.Kovacs,J.A.Law,s.D.Marshall,11.12S.N.Myatra,13E.P.O'Sullivan,14W.H.Rosenblatt,15 C.H.Ross,16.17 J.C.Sakles,18 M.Sorbello19 andT.M.Cook20.211 Consultant,Department of Anaesthesia,Monash Medical Centre,Melbourne,Australia2 Consultant,Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care,Warrington Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,Cheshire,UK3 Chief Academic Officer,Division Head,Anesthesiology,Critical Care and Pain Medicine,Bud Johnson ClinicalDistinguished Chair,Department of Anaesthesiology and Peri-operative Medicine,University of Texas MD AndersonCancer Center,Houston,TX,USA4Associate Professor,Department of Anaesthesiology,University of Auckland,New Zealand5 Consultant,Department of Anaesthesiology,Starship Children's Hospital,Auckland,NewZealand6 Professor Emeritus,Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine,University of Toronto,Toronto,ON,Canada7 Professor,Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine,Bern University Hospital,University of Bem,Switzerland8 Professor,Department of Medical Education,Sigmund Freud University,Vienna,Austria9Professor,Departments of Emergency Medicine,Anesthesia,Medical Neurosciences and Division of MedicalEducation,Dalhousie University,Halifax,Canada10 Professor,Department of Anesthesia,Pain Management and Peri-operative Medicine,Dalhousie University,Halifax,Canada11 Associate Professor,Department of Critical Care,University of Melboume,VIC,Australia12 Honorary Associate Professor,Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine,Monash University,Melboume,VC,Australia13 Professor,Department of Anaesthesiology,Critical Care and Pain,Tata Memorial Hospital,Homi Bhabha NationalInstitute,Mumbai,India14 Consultant,Department of Anaesthesiology,St James's Hospital,Dublin,Ireland15 Professor,Department of Anesthesia,Yale School of Medicine,New Haven,CT,USA16 Attending,Department of Emergency Medicine,Mercy Health,Javon Bea Hospital,Rockton and Riverside Campuses,Rockford,IL,USA17 Visiting Professor,Department of Surgery,University of llinois College of Medicine,Chicago IL,USA18 Professor,Department of Emergency Medicine,University of Arizona College of Medicine,Tucson,AZ,USA19 Consultant,Anesthesia and Intensive Care,AOU Policlinico San Marco University Hospital,Catania,Italy20 Consultant,Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine,Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS FoundationTrust,Bath,UK21 Honorary Professor,School of Medicine,University of Bristol,Bristol,UK*International airway societies:Difficult Airway Society;Society for Airway Management;European Airway ManagementSociety;All India Difficult Airway Society;Canadian Airway Focus Group;Safe Airway Society;and International AirwayManagement SocietyRe-use of this a
