Emergency tracheal intubation immediately following traumatic injury
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Guidelines for emergency tracheal intubation immediately after traumatic injury.
I. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Hypoxia and obstruction of the airway are linked to preventable and potentially preventable acute trauma deaths. There is substantial documentation that hypoxia is common in severe brain injury and worsens neurologic outcome. The primary concern with acute postinjury respiratory system insufficiency is hypoxemic hypoxia and subsequent hypoxic encephalopathy or cardia...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2163-0755
DOI: 10.1097/ta.0b013e31827018a5