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- Title
Three-step emergency cricothyroidotomy.
- Authors
MacIntyre, Allan; Markarian, Mark K; Carrison, Dale; Coates, Jay; Kuhls, Deborah; Fildes, John J
- Abstract
Surgical cricothyroidotomy is the airway of choice in combat. It is too dangerous for combat medics to perform orotracheal intubation, because of the time needed to complete the procedure and the light signature from the intubation equipment, which provides an easy target for the enemy. The purpose of this article was to provide a modified approach for obtaining a surgical airway in complete darkness, with night-vision goggles.
- Publication
Military medicine, 2007, Vol 172, Issue 12, p1228
- ISSN
0026-4075
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.7205/milmed.172.12.1228