Critically injured patients, inaccessible airways, and laryngeal mask airways
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Critically injured patients, inaccessible airways, and laryngeal mask airways.
Managing the airway of a critically injured trauma patient in the prehospital environment is challenging, especially when access to the patient's airway is limited as is often the case in vehicle entrapment incidents. This paper reports the use of the laryngeal mask airway as an adjunct to airway management when attempts using simple airway management techniques have failed to provide adequate ...
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Corresponding author: Yoon-Hee Kim, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Munhwa-ro, Jung-gu, Daejeon 301-721, Korea. Tel: 82-42-280-7840, Fax: 82-42-280-7968, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creative...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2005.026443