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One of the fundamental responsibilities of anesthesiologists, intensive care and emergency physicians is to maintain adequate gas exchange. In order to perform this goal, the airway must be managed in such a way that it is almost continuously patent. Inadequate lung ventilation results in irreversible brain damage or cardiac arrest within a few minutes.
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Kofler, J., Stoiser, B., Frass, M. (1998). Emergency Intubation: The Difficult Airway. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1998. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 1998. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72038-3_33
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