An instrument approach to airway management.
Aviation terminology and thought processes are commonly applied to medicine. We further propose the adaptation of instrument flight terminology to emergency airway management including the aviation approach plate visual aid and replacement of the term "failed airway" with "missed airway,"
Department of Emergency Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. Electronic address: Thomsonda@ecu.edu.
David P
DP
Thomson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
Darren
D
Braude
Department of Emergency Medicine/Emergency Services, Vanderbilt University, Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
Kevin
K
High
IFR Global, Inc., Murfreesboro, TN.
Rachel
R
Miller-Tester
D058109:Airway Management / Q000379:methods*; D001359:Aviation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000379:methods; D014139:Tracheostomy / Q000379:methods