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Emerg Med J 2005;22:742-744 doi:10.1136/emj.2005.026443
  • Prehospital care

Critically injured patients, inaccessible airways, and laryngeal mask airways

  1. J Hulme1,
  2. G D Perkins2
  1. 1University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, UK
  2. 2Division of Medical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr Jonathan Hulme
 38 Earls Court Road, Birmingham B17 9AH, UK; jonhulmedoctors.org.uk
  • Accepted 26 July 2005

Abstract

Managing the airway of a critically injured trauma patient in the prehospital environment is challenging, especially when access to the patient’s airway is limited as is often the case in vehicle entrapment incidents. This paper reports the use of the laryngeal mask airway as an adjunct to airway management when attempts using simple airway management techniques have failed to provide adequate oxygenation and ventilation and limited access to the patient precluded endotracheal intubation.

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  • Competing interests: none declared

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