Improvised cricothyrotomy provides reliable airway access in an unembalmed human cadaver model

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 81-86

  Platts Mills, Timothy F ^a   Lewin, Matthew R ^b   Wells, Jesse ^c   Bickler, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ALAMEDA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway obstruction; Improvised; Intravenous spike; Prehospital; Surgical cricothyrotomy

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CADAVER; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MASK; NECK DISSECTION; TRACHEOTOMY; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 33745164894     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/PR20-05.1     Document Type: Article

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