Do we Need to have the National Airway Management Guidelines?

Difficult airway happens in clinical practice and may lead to catastrophic outcome. The guidelines are promulgated to provide safe, evidence base practice for well-being of patients, physicians and health care system. This is in line with a paradigm shift towards evidence based medicine approach in clinical practice. Such document also helps in judging the standard of care at all levels, raise quality of care and maintain cost benefit. The guidelines and algorithms exists for various nations around the world. They have drafted the document based on the local need taking into considerations logistics, infrastructure and the cost, based on evidence.