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Airway Management in Recovery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

M. Oakley
Affiliation:
PACU South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre Surrey, UK
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Abstract

Maintaining the patient's airway in the post anaesthetic stage of the patient's care is a skilful endeavour and all practitioners working in a recovery unit must be familiar with all types of obstruction, the causes and how to treat them. Awareness must also be demonstrated of the airway adjuncts available to maintain a patient's airway.

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Original Article
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Copyright © British Association of Anaesthetic and Recovery Nursing 2004

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