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Airway management in the emergency department
  1. M Clancy1,
  2. J Nolan2
  1. 1Accident and Emergency Department, Southampton General Hospital, UK
  2. 2Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
 Mr M Clancy, Accident and Emergency Department, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK

Abstract

Airway management in the emergency department and the role of anaesthetists and emergency physicians is reviewed. The training for emergency physicians in the advanced airway skills of rapid sequence induction and tracheal intubation is discussed.

  • airway
  • intubation

https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.19.1.2

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