One-year experience with the tracheo-esophageal airway.
In a year of usage by newly trained Emergency Medical Technicians-Cardiac a modification of the standard esophageal obturator airway (EOA) functioned well in 96% of 191 attempted uses. The modification involves substituting a standard endotracheal tube for the blind-ended EOA tube normally used. In the 4% of cases in which the modified airway could not be used, the majority involved the inability to achieve an adequate facemask seal.
D000293:Adolescent; D000368:Aged; D004947:Esophagus / Q000293:injuries; D006801:Humans; D007440:Intubation / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy*; D012421:Rupture