Endotracheal Tube Intracuff Pressure During Helicopter Transport

 Supervising editor: Henry E. Wang, MD, MS

 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article that might create any potential conflict of interest. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. Funding was provided by the Department of Anesthesia, University Hospital Basel. The Swiss Air-Rescue Organisation helped collect the data.

 Author contributions: MB and MZ were responsible for conception of the study. MB and J-JE designed the study. MB was responsible for statistical analysis of the data. MB, MZ, and WU interpreted the data and drafted the article. MZ was responsible for statistical consulting. MZ and WU revised the article critically for important intellectual content. J-JE was responsible for selection of patients and critical revision of the article. WU had final approval of the article. WU takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

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 Publication date: Available online February 25, 2010.

PII: S0196-0644(10)00098-3

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.01.025

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