title: False passage to the trachea after emergency intubation in a victim of near hanging.
abstract: Emergency medicine physicians should have enough knowledge and experience to deal with emergent and traumatic difficult airway. In this paper, we present a case of near hanging with neck soft tissue injury, tracheal and esophageal rupture that is complicated by a displaced intubation and false passage to the trachea.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, 2120 L Street NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pourmand
authors.forename: Hamid
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shokoohi