Submental Intubation

Acquisition of a secure airway is an essential element of the operative management of maxillofacial trauma. Of the options available, submental intubation is an alternative to tracheostomy. The access should be accomplished via a midline approach rather than lateral through the mylohyoid, an armored...

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Autores principales: Luce, Edward A., Alvarez, Sonia M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2018
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Ideas and Innovations
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6191234/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30349783
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000001896
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description Acquisition of a secure airway is an essential element of the operative management of maxillofacial trauma. Of the options available, submental intubation is an alternative to tracheostomy. The access should be accomplished via a midline approach rather than lateral through the mylohyoid, an armored endotracheal tube utilized to prevent kinking, and the passage facilitated by use of wound dilators obtained from a percutaneous tracheostomy set.
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spelling pubmed-61912342018-10-22 Submental Intubation Luce, Edward A. Alvarez, Sonia M. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open Ideas and Innovations Acquisition of a secure airway is an essential element of the operative management of maxillofacial trauma. Of the options available, submental intubation is an alternative to tracheostomy. The access should be accomplished via a midline approach rather than lateral through the mylohyoid, an armored endotracheal tube utilized to prevent kinking, and the passage facilitated by use of wound dilators obtained from a percutaneous tracheostomy set. Wolters Kluwer Health 2018-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6191234/ /pubmed/30349783 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000001896 Text en Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American Society of Plastic Surgeons. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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