Citation

Pourmand A, Shokoohi H. Case Rep. Emerg. Med. 2013; 2013: 281307.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, 2120 L Street NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC 20037, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Hindawi Publishing)

DOI

10.1155/2013/281307

PMID

23762656

Abstract

Emergency medicine physicians should have enough knowledge and experience to deal with emergent and traumatic difficult airway. In this paper, we present a case of near hanging with neck soft tissue injury, tracheal and esophageal rupture that is complicated by a displaced intubation and false passage to the trachea.

Language: en