Airway management after major trauma
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ABC of major trauma. Management of the upper airway.
All severely injured patients have hypoxaemia in varying degrees. As soon as medical help arrives the first priority must be to ensure that the patient's airway is free and ventilation is unimpaired. Immediate administration of Indications for securing an airway supplementary oxygen to the unobstructed airway is of paramount with an endotracheal tube importance. Remember that in the first vital...
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عنوان ژورنال: Continuing Education in Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1743-1816
DOI: 10.1093/bjaceaccp/mkl015