RT Book, Section
A1 Knowles, Justin
A1 Rains, Allison
A2 Stone, C. Keith
A2 Humphries, Roger L.
SR Print(0)
ID 55747312
T1 Chapter 10. Compromised Airway
T2 CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Emergency Medicine, 7e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-0-07-170107-5
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55747312
RD 2024/04/24
AB Securing  the  airway  and  assuring  adequate  ventilation  are  the  first  priorities  in  the  resuscitation  of  any  acutely  ill  or  injured  patient.  Without  a  patent  airway  and  adequate  gas  exchange,  other  resuscitative  measures  will  usually  be  futile.  Thus,  attention  to  the  airway  must  precede  or  occur  simultaneously  with  any  other  type  of  management.  The  exception  is  the  initial  defibrillation  in  cardiac  arrest  due  to  ventricular  fibrillation,  if  it  can  be  performed  immediately.  (See  Figure  10–1.)