RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Critically injured patients, inaccessible airways, and laryngeal mask airways
JF Emergency Medicine Journal
JO Emerg Med J
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine
SP 742
OP 744
DO 10.1136/emj.2005.026443
VO 22
IS 10
A1 J Hulme
A1 G D Perkins
YR 2005
UL http://emj.bmj.com/content/22/10/742.abstract
AB 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.