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A Multiple Purpose Airway Endoscope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Niall MacAllister ,
Robert Beaudry ,
Adele MacMurray ,
Ben Brock  and
John Zorab
Niall MacAllister
Affiliation:
Salisbury, MD, USA
Robert Beaudry
Affiliation:
From the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and Peninsula General Hospital
Adele MacMurray
Affiliation:
From the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and Peninsula General Hospital
Ben Brock
Affiliation:
From the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and Peninsula General Hospital
John Zorab
Affiliation:
Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK.
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Extract

Since early recorded use of the endotracheal catheter for controlled ventilation of the lung and protection of the airway from aspiration, the protection of airway integrity has been inconsistently obtained and not without significant morbidity.

Trauma is the leading cause of death between the ages of 1 and 40. The three most common causes of trauma related death are inadequate ventilation, inadequate circulation and massive hemorrhage. Thus high priority must be given to airway management, breathing and circulation. The efficiency of the former is essential to optimal circulatory adjustment. No presently available instrument fulfills these needs within a single system.

Type
Part II: Clinical Care Topics
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 213
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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