TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 13. Surgical Airway
A1  - Launcelott, Gordon O.
A1  - Johnson, Liane B.
A2  - Hung, Orlando
A2  - Murphy, Michael F.
PY  - 2012
T2  - Management of the Difficult and Failed Airway, 2e
AB  - In  1799,  as  George  Washington  lay  dying  of  life  threatening  upper  airway  obstruction,  one  of  his  physicians,  Elisha  Cullen  Dick,  argued  against  further  bloodletting  and  for  tracheotomy.  In  retrospect  this  was  the  only  lifesaving  option  available.  It  was  not  attempted  and  the  President  succumbed.1  
SN  - 
PB  - The McGraw-Hill Companies
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55868495
ER  -