An EM Resident’s Guide to Basic Airway Management
Core EM
JANUARY 16, 2025
Only about 50% sensitive for detecting an esophageal intubation (Grmec 2004) and about 65% sensitive for detecting a main-stem intubation in the operating room where everything is much quieter than in the ED (Sitzwohl 2010). Our esteemed MICU colleagues have endorsed this opinion) How about asthma? Auscultation. Even worse.
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