Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 3 , Pages 323-326 , March 2010

Out-of-hospital airway management by paramedics and emergency physicians using laryngeal tubes

  • Richard Schalk

      Affiliations

    • Clinic of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, and Pain Therapy, J.W. Goethe University Hospital Frankfurt, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, D-60590 Frankfurt, Germany
    • These authors contributed equally to the study.
    • ,
  • Christian Byhahn

      Affiliations

    • Clinic of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, and Pain Therapy, J.W. Goethe University Hospital Frankfurt, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, D-60590 Frankfurt, Germany
    • These authors contributed equally to the study.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 69 6301 87638; fax: +49 69 6301 5881.
    • ,
  • Felix Fausel

      Affiliations

    • Clinic of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, and Pain Therapy, J.W. Goethe University Hospital Frankfurt, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, D-60590 Frankfurt, Germany
    • ,
  • Andreas Egner

      Affiliations

    • District of Hochtaunuskreis, D-61250 Usingen, Germany
    • ,
  • Dieter Oberndörfer

      Affiliations

    • Municipality of Frankfurt, Fire Department, Paramedic School, D-60435 Frankfurt, Germany
    • ,
  • Felix Walcher

      Affiliations

    • Department of Trauma Surgery, J.W. Goethe University Hospital Frankfurt, D-60590 Frankfurt, Germany
    • ,
  • Leo Latasch

      Affiliations

    • Municipality of Frankfurt, Public Health Department, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany

Received 10 August 2009 ,Revised 8 November 2009 ,Accepted 12 November 2009.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the abstract of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.11.007.

☆☆ The study was presented in part during the Annual Meeting of the German Society of Anaesthesiologists, Leipzig, Germany, 11 May 2009.

PII: S0300-9572(09)00585-1

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.11.007

Resuscitation
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