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Review
. 2018 Jul;34(3):313-324.
doi: 10.1016/j.ccc.2018.03.006.

Critical Care Airway Management

Etieno U Umobong  1 , Paul H Mayo  2
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Critical Care Airway Management

Etieno U Umobong et al. Crit Care Clin. 2018 Jul.

Abstract

Critical care airway management is associated with a variety of complications, including severe oxygen desaturation, life-threatening hypotension, and death. This article reviews aspects of airway management that are relevant to intensivists and emergency medicine clinicians tasked with improving the quality of urgent endotracheal intubation in the critically ill patient.

Keywords: Complications; Difficult airway; Endotracheal intubation; MACOCHA score; Quality improvement.

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