TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 3. The Failed Airway
A1  - Gens, David R.
A1  - Farcy, David A.
A1  - Yeatts, Dale J.
A2  - Farcy, David A.
A2  - Chiu, William C.
A2  - Flaxman, Alex
A2  - Marshall, John P.
PY  - 2012
T2  - Critical Care Emergency Medicine
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  - The McGraw-Hill Companies
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55810172
ER  -