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Airway management: the difficult airway

Trauma, 2000
Maintenance of a patent airway to allow ventilation with high concentration oxygen is an essential procedure during the resuscitation of all trauma patients. A range of equipment is available to help achieve and maintain a clear airway, with endotracheal intubation remaining the gold standard.
DC Bryden, Carl Gwinnutt
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Complications of managing the airway

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology, 2005
The inability to secure the airway, with consequent failure of oxygenation and ventilation, is a life-threatening complication. Failure of oxygenation leads to hypoxia followed by brain damage, cardiovascular dysfunction, and finally death. Time is a very crucial factor in this context. Complications vary widely in severity; while some are dramatic and
Rainer Georgi, Claude Krier, Carin A. Hagberg   +2 more
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Management of the Traumatized Airway.

Anesthesiology
There is a lack of evidence-based approach regarding the best practice for airway management in patients with a traumatized airway. General recommendations for the management of the traumatized airway are summarized in table 5.
Uday Jain, Maureen McCunn, Charles E. Smith, J. Pittet   +3 more
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Airway Management

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1993
The approach to airway management in the multiple trauma patient has changed significantly over the past decade. A number of central controversies have been identified, and the debates continue. This article identifies the major controversies in trauma airway management, reviews and summarizes relevant literature, and presents specific recommendations ...
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Airway Management

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1988
In this article the author discusses standard oral, nasal, and surgical approaches to airway management, including some modifications of these routine techniques. Several specific clinical settings then are presented, and airway management options and recommendations for each condition are discussed.
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Anatomy of the Airway/Airway Management

2017
This chapter reviews upper airway anatomy and airway management. One of the most difficult aspects in clinical anesthesia is the consistent identification of patients in whom airways are likely to be challenging to secure. The act of securing the airway involves multiple steps, viz.: positioning, face mask ventilation, visualization of the vocal cords,
Basem Abdelmalak, Sekar S. Bhavani
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Heliox in Airway Management

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2008
Helium-oxygen ("heliox") mixtures have been used for decades in the treatment of various respiratory problems ranging from acute upper airway obstructions to lower airway derangements, such as asthma and exacerbations of chronic bronchitis. This review presents a brief history of helium and helium-oxygen mixtures and their potential clinical uses ...
Jane M. McGarvey, Charles V. Pollack
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Management of airway hemangiomas

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, 2010
Airway infantile hemangiomas can cause life-threatening airway compromise from the first year of life. Diagnosis, treatment protocols and outcome measures are not standardized for this condition, making systematic assessment of treatments and outcomes difficult.
Karthik Balakrishnan, Jonathan A. Perkins   +1 more
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Emergency Airway Management: the Difficult Airway

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2012
Patients requiring airway management in the emergency department present an enormous challenge. It requires not only a firm concept of techniques for securing the airway but also of dealing with the potential difficult airway (DA) in which establishing a definite airway is not possible with techniques routinely used.
Joe Nemeth, Nisreen Maghraby, Nisreen Maghraby, Sara Kazim, Sara Kazim   +4 more
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Algorithm for Airway Management in Patients With Pierre Robin Sequence

The Journal of craniofacial surgery (Print), 2018
Purpose: Airway management in neonates with Pierre Robin sequence (PRS) can be challenging. The goal was to describe the algorithm developed by the authors over the past 8 years.
Katherine Hicks, K. Billings, C. Purnell, John M. Carter, B. Bhushan, A. Gosain, D. Thompson, J. Rastatter   +7 more
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