Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 1 , Pages 81-87, July 2003

Patient safety in emergency airway management and rapid sequence intubation: Metaphorical lessons from skydiving☆☆☆

Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.

Received 6 September 2002; received in revised form 20 November 2002 and 11 December 2002; accepted 16 December 2002.

Address for correspondence: Richard M. Levitan, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104; 215-662-7260; E-mail levitanr@mail.med.upenn.edu.

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☆ The author reports this study did not receive any outside funding or support.

☆☆ Reprints not available from the author.

PII: S0196-0644(03)00340-8

doi:10.1067/mem.2003.254

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 1 , Pages 81-87, July 2003

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