TY - JOUR
T1 - Unrecognized tracheal intubation
T2 - A complication of the esophageal obturator airway
AU - Yancey, William
AU - Wears, Robert
AU - Kamajian, George
AU - Derovanesian, Jack
PY - 1980
Y1 - 1980
N2 - Esophageal obturator airway (EOA) use is not without risk. We present here the fatal cases of three patients in whom the trachea was inadvertently intubated with the EOA. In all three cases, the presence of tracheal intubation was unrecognized during the initial prehospital resuscitation, but was recognized and documented in the emergency department.
AB - Esophageal obturator airway (EOA) use is not without risk. We present here the fatal cases of three patients in whom the trachea was inadvertently intubated with the EOA. In all three cases, the presence of tracheal intubation was unrecognized during the initial prehospital resuscitation, but was recognized and documented in the emergency department.
KW - complications
KW - esophageal obturator airway
KW - intratracheal
KW - intubation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0019152075&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S0196-0644(80)80434-3
DO - 10.1016/S0196-0644(80)80434-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 7356188
AN - SCOPUS:0019152075
SN - 0196-0644
VL - 9
SP - 18
EP - 20
JO - Annals of Emergency Medicine
JF - Annals of Emergency Medicine
IS - 1
ER -