what air way method is used for an unresponsive patient with trauma
In the spontaneously breathing patient however, one can hear movement of air at the end of the tracheal tube and thus line the tube up with the trachea. Orotracheal intubation is generally accepted as the more usual method for securing the airway in the trauma patient. It is the fastest and surest method of intubating the trachea. At Shock Trauma in Baltimore, Maryland (5) more than 3000 patients were intubated orally with a modified rapid sequence induction technique with pre-oxygenation and cricoid pressure.