You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Letter
Use of cut endotracheal tubes should be avoided in the initial resuscitation of the burned patient
  1. M A Gillies,
  2. S Krone,
  3. K Sim
  1. Department of Anaesthesia, Queen Victoria Hospital, Holtye Road, East Grinstead, Sussex
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr M A Gillies;
 michaelgillies{at}yahoo.co.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.20.1.109

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    The use of cut endotracheal tubes is already a contentious issue amongst anaesthetists.1 We wish to point out a potentially life threatening hazard when they are used in the emergency department during the initial resuscitation of the thermally injured patient.

    Often these patients are intubated early if there is any …

    View Full Text