Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 35, Issue 2 , Pages 188-191 , February 2000

Successful cricothyrotomy after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: A report of two cases

  • Ron M. Walls, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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  • Charles V. Pollack Jr., MA, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ.
    • ,
  • On behalf of the investigators of the National Emergency Airway Registry

Received 1 June 1999 ,Revised 19 October 1999 ,Accepted 15 November 1999.

References 

  1. Walls RM, Vissers RJ, Sagarin MJ, et al.  1,288 Emergency department intubations—Final Report of the National Emergency Airway Registry Pilot Project. Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. [abstract] Acad Emerg Med. 1998;5:393
  2. Walls RM. Airway management. In: 4th ed.  Rosen P,  Barkin R editor. Emergency Medicine Concepts and Clinical Practice. St. Louis, MO: : Mosby; 1997;p. 2–24
  3. Sakles JC, Laurin EG, Rantapaa AA, et al.  Airway management in the emergency department: a one-year study of 610 tracheal intubations. Ann Emerg Med. 1998;31:325–332
  4. Walls RM. Cricothyrotomy. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 1998;6:725–736
  5. Walls RM. The emergency airway algorithms. In: 3rd ed.  Walls RM,  Luten RC,  Murphy MF, et al. editor. Manual of Emergency Airway Management . Wellesley, MA: : Airway Management Education Center; 1999;p. 25–41

☆ Address for reprints: Ron M. Walls, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115; fax 617-278-6911; E-mail rwalls@partners.org.

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Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 35, Issue 2 , Pages 188-191 , February 2000

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