Simplifying trauma airway management in South African rural hospitals
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Simplifying trauma airway management in South African rural hospitals.
South African emergency centres witness high levels of trauma. Successfully managing a compromised trauma airway requires considerable skill and expertise. In the rural healthcare setting, clinics and hospitals are often staffed by junior doctors without formal advanced airway training. Current airway management algorithms tend to ignore lack of resources and skill. We therefore propose a simpl...
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عنوان ژورنال: South African Medical Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2078-5135
DOI: 10.7196/samj.8064