The current gold standard for combat airway management is endotracheal intubation
however, the performance of the current design, endotracheal tube (ETT), is highly …

Background Airway obstruction is the second leading cause of potentially survivable death
on the battlefield. The Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care lists airway optimization …

Background: When working in a tactical environment there are several different airway
management options that exist. One published manuscript suggests that when compared to …

The most common cause of upper respiratory tract obstruction in an unconscious or
unresponsive patient is the loss of muscle tone in the upper airway. Consequently, this leads …

Background. The EasyTube (EzT) is a new sterile, disposable airway device approved by
the European Union in February 2003 andby the US Food andDrug Administration in …

INTRODUCTION—Extraglottic airway devices are used to establish an airway for
oxygenation and ventilation without entering the trachea. They are important tools for airway …

Abstract Supraglottic Airway Devices belongs to a vast group of medical devices that can
function as a conduit for ventilation, oxygenation, and the administering anaesthetic gases …

The gold standard for securing the airway is tracheal intubation. In the modern era of
supraglottic airways (SGAs), an endotracheal tube (ETT), once placed, offers both reliability …

Methods We tested 10 SGA models according to nine MIL-STD-810H test methods. We
selected these tests by polling five military and civilian emergency-medicine subject matter …

Dear Sir, With great interest we read an article by Frass et al. entitled “Securing the airway
patency by firefighters with the use of CombiTube. A pilot data”[1]. In this study, the authors …