About This Project

We’re excited to announce another collaborative PAC project. The “Critical Language Compendium” to help define and disseminate this important airway language. The Critical Language Compendium is a crowd-sourced project to identify key terms in airway management and disseminate this important language.

If you have a term we should add, please submit it here. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Once accepted, anytime that term is used on the website, it will have a hyperlink to allow learners to access your submission and learn from it. 

Want to learn more about the importance of critical language in airway managment? The paper below is a great read.

“Critical language refers to standardized communication in which specific terms or phrases have a clear, mutually agreed meaning. It is employed in healthcare and other high-reliability industries to avoid ambiguity, flatten hierarchies, and improve team situation awareness. Ideally, it should not only improve the clarity of communication but also trigger cognitive links to key priorities and actions required.”

Critical Airways, Critical Language – N. Chrimes and T. M. Cook

Department of Anaesthesia, Monash Medical Centre, 246 Clayton Rd, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia, and 2Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath BA12 3NG, UK