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Chapter 3 - Basic airway management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2015

By
Stephen Bush  and
David Ray
Edited by
Andrew Burtenshaw ,
Jonathan Benger  and
Jerry Nolan
Andrew Burtenshaw
Affiliation:
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Jonathan Benger
Affiliation:
University of the West of England, Bristol
Jerry Nolan
Affiliation:
Royal United Hospital, Bath
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Emergency Airway Management , pp. 20 - 29
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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Marx, J., Hockberger, R., Walls, R. (2013) Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, 8th edn. Philadelphia: Elsevier.Google Scholar
Healy, T., Knight, P.R. (2003) Wylie & Churchill-Davidson’s A Practice of Anesthesia, 7th edn. London: Arnold.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Walls, R.M., Murphy, M.F.. (2012) Manual of Emergency Airway Management, 4th edn. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.Google Scholar
Brasel, K., Kortbeek, J.B., Turki, S.A. et al. (2012) Advanced Trauma Life Support Course Provider Manual, 9th edn. Chicago: American College of Surgeons.Google Scholar
Nolan, J., Soar, J., Lockey, A. et al. (2011) Advanced Life Support, 6th edn. London: Resuscitation Council (UK).Google Scholar
Roberts, K., Whalley, H., Bleetman, A. (2005) The nasopharyngeal airway: dispelling myths and establishing the facts. Emerg Med J; 22: 394–6.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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