Showing posts with label Direct vs. Video Laryngoscopy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Direct vs. Video Laryngoscopy. Show all posts

Friday, November 9, 2012

Resident Journal Review: An Update on Airway Management in Emergency Medicine

Originally Published: Common Sense, Nov/Dec 2012

Original Authors: Authors: Michael Allison, MD; Michael Scott, MD; Kami Hu, MD; David Bostick, MD; Daniel Boutsikaris, MD

Edited by: Michael C. Bond, MD FAAEM; Jay Khapde, MD FAAEM

 There are few clinical skills as important to the emergency physician as emergency airway management. The field of airway management is constantly changing, and the practicing physician must keep abreast of the current trends in laryngoscopy, medication management, prehospital intubation, and the potential complications of intubation. Reviewed here are some of the key airway-related articles published over the past two years.

Direct Laryngoscopy Compared to Video Laryngoscopy