• Clinics in chest medicine · Sep 1991

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    The role of cricothyroidotomy in airway management.

    • B Burkey, R Esclamado, and M Morganroth.
    • Department of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor.
    • Clin. Chest Med. 1991 Sep 1;12(3):561-71.

    AbstractCricothyroidotomy as a method of elective airway management, previously shunned by Jackson, was reintroduced to the medical community in 1976. This article examines available data indicating the utility and complications of elective cricothyroidotomy for long-term airway management and defines its place with respect to tracheotomy.

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