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Emergency Medicine Questions (EMQs)
Theme: Advanced airway
  1. M Davey

https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2010.093047

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    Question 1

    Which of the following are true regarding confirmation of endotracheal placement?

    1. In a patient with good cardiac output the presence of a four phase waveform on continuous capnography reliably excludes oesophageal intubation.

    2. The presence of a series of six waveforms on continous capnography reliably confirms tracheal intubation in patients in cardiorespiratory arrest undergoing …

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