RT Book, Section
A1 Launcelott, Gordon O.
A1 Johnson, Liane B.
A2 Hung, Orlando
A2 Murphy, Michael F.
SR Print(0)
ID 55868495
T1 Chapter 13. Surgical Airway
T2 Management of the Difficult and Failed Airway, 2e
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-162344-5
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55868495
RD 2024/04/19
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