Prehospital tracheotomy in a case of avulsion of the larynx with a comminuted fracture of the jawbone

Emergency physicians in the field are sometimes confronted with cases wherein patients cannot be intubated and ventilated. In some cases, cricothyrotomy, the method of choice for securing an emergency airway, may not have a successful outcome. We report a rare case of a 35-yearold male patient with...

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Main Authors: Holger Rupprecht, Katharina Gaab
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Korean Society of Emergency Medicine 2019-06-01
Series:Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.ceemjournal.org/upload/pdf/ceem-18-016.pdf