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Emergency cricothyrotomy
Christopher DiGiacomo1, Kevin K Neshat, L D George Angus
1The Long Island Comprehensive Trauma Center, Department of Surgery, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, NY 11554, USA.
Military Medicine
|August 7, 2003
Abstract:
Emergency cricothyrotomy is a potentially lifesaving surgical procedure used to gain prompt access to an otherwise compromised and inaccessible airway. The purpose of this photoessay is to demonstrate the technique of the procedure in a step-by-step manner so that the physician can perform this intervention with ease and facility in the most stressful of circumstances.