Airway Management for Trauma Patients With Potential Cervical Spine Injuries

1991/10/01 by Randolph H. Hastings, James D. Marks · 3 citations
Medicine · #Airway Management and Intubation Techniques #Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes #Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances

paper · doi:10.1213/00000539-199110000-00019

Abstract

Department of Anesthesia, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, California Address correspondence to Dr. Hastings, San Francisco General Hospital, Department of Anesthesia, 35--50, 1001 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110. We thank Hideyo Minagi, MD, for providing the C-spine roentgen- ograms; Brian Andrews, MD, Larry Pitts, MD, Heidi Jerome, MD, Jeffrey Katz, MD, Jeanine Wiener-Kronish, MD, and Paul Wood, MB, QIB, for helpful suggestions; Winifred Von Ehrenberg for editorial assistance; and Rachel Saidman for manuscript preparation. Accepted for publication June 5, 1991.

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