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An EM Resident’s Guide to Basic Airway Management

Core EM

This document will focus on the anatomical considerations and aspiration risk. Our esteemed MICU colleagues have endorsed this opinion) How about asthma? Well consider difficult intubation for our purposes here to mean an intubation that requires multiple attempts with DL or the use of a hyperangulated VL / advanced technique (e.g.

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