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Review
. 2015 Mar-Apr;34(2):113-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.amj.2014.12.011.

An instrument approach to airway management

David P Thomson  1 , Darren Braude  2 , Kevin High  3 , Rachel Miller-Tester  4
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Review

An instrument approach to airway management

David P Thomson et al. Air Med J. 2015 Mar-Apr.

Abstract

Aviation terminology and thought processes are commonly applied to medicine. We further propose the adaptation of instrument flight terminology to emergency airway management including the aviation approach plate visual aid and replacement of the term "failed airway" with "missed airway,"

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