TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Emergency Surgical Airway A1 - Yeatts, Dale J. A1 - Farcy, David A. A1 - Gens, David R. A2 - Farcy, David A. A2 - Chiu, William C. A2 - Marshall, John P. A2 - Osborn, Tiffany M. Y1 - 2016 N1 - T2 - Critical Care Emergency Medicine, 2e AB - The airway management of unstable and critically ill patients has always been an essential skill within the emergency physician's scope of practice. The early act of inserting an artificial airway protects the lungs from aspiration in an obtunded patient, or prevents hypoxia and carbon dioxide retention in a patient who cannot spontaneously breathe. This has been shown to improve neurologic outcome when performed early during the initial phase of resuscitation, and emergency physicians are often the first clinicians to perform intubation and initiate mechanical ventilation.1 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1135699622 ER -