This article reviews the more recent theoretic and practical information that pertains to airway management in the trauma setting. This is followed by a presentation of the newer airway devices that may be advantageous in the management of the airway in trauma as well as a discussion of other devices, techniques, or maneuvers that are useful in the trauma setting but may be underused. Each clinician needs to be knowledgeable about the various airway options and then, based on one's own particular skills and resources, construct an airway management algorithm that works best for him or her. Each clinician needs to be knowledgeable about the various airway options, and then, based on the clinician's particular skills and resources, construct an airway management algorithm that works best.
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PUBLICATION TYPE: Review
Journal: Emergency medicine clinics of North America
VOLUME: 25
Page Numbers: 603-22, vii
Journal Abbreviation: Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am.
ISSN: 0733-8627
DAY: 21
MONTH: Aug
YEAR: 2007
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KEYWORDS: Wounds and Injuries
MESH TERMS: therapy
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AFFILIATION: Department of Emergency Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, 701 Park Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55415, USA. john.mcgill@co.hennepin.mn.us
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