Airway management
Airway management is one of the key components of emergency care. Its primary
objective is to diagnose an obstructed or potentially obstructed airway, to clear
the obstruction and keep the airway patent. No medical emergency, short of a
complete cardiopulmonary arrest, is more immediately life-threatening than the
loss of an adequate airway. Failure to adequately manage airway patency and
ventilation has been identified as a major cause of preventable death in trauma