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Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 7e
| Section 4. Resuscitative Procedures > |
Chapter 31. Surgical Airway Management
Sections: Surgical Airway Management: Introduction, Patient Selection, Specific Issues that Affect Evaluation and Treatment, Procedure, Acknowledgment, References.
Topics Discussed: intubation; intubation, failed or difficult.
Excerpt:"Approximately 3% of intubation attempts are in difficult
airways where a surgical airway should be anticipated.1 The
rate of failed ED intubations and subsequent surgical airway placement
is below 0.6%.1 However, it would be prudent
to prepare for a "worst case scenario" during
all intubations...."
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