Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Emergency cricothyroidotomy is a scary beast in the resus room of a tertiary hospital ED. Having it flop down in front of you at a race event is a pant filler!
There is constant debate over the best method to use, bouncing between needle cric and scalpel cric with various versions of tube introduction. There are supporters of both approaches, with cogent arguments on both sides, as seen on the previously mentionned EM Crit debate, betw...
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