RT Book, Section
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.
SR Print(0)
ID 55810172
T1 Chapter 3. The Failed Airway
T2 Critical Care Emergency Medicine
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-162824-2
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55810172
RD 2024/04/18
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