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Best Case Ever 62 Penetrating Upper Airway Injury Awake Intubation Do’s & Don’ts

Emergency Medicine Cases

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RSI for Penetrating Neck Trauma

I think the idea of paralyzing a patient like this would be pretty sphincter tightening for pretty much anyone. Most of us are familiar with doing RSI and don't do very many awake. An awake approach really is about topicalization. If you need some sedation, then I will use sedation and it will be ketamine. And then you choose your device and your device. In my mind, there's really the ideal device that allow you to access the airway and inspect the airway.

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