Emergency Medicine

Research reports on emergency medicine from University of Iowa, Department of Emergency Medicine provide new insights

Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, April 29th, 2007

Investigators publish new data in the report "The laryngeal tube device: a simple and timely adjunct to airway management." According to recent research from the United States, "Endotracheal intubation (ETI) is a motor skill that demands practice. Emergency medical service providers with limited intubation experience should consider using airway adjuncts other than ETI for respiratory compromise."

"Prehospital ETI has been recently interrogated by evidence exposing worsened patient outcomes. The laryngeal tube (LT) airway was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2003 for use in the United States. Using difficult airway-simulated models, we sought to describe...

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