The Relationship Between Out-of-Hospital Airway Management and Outcome Among Trauma Patients with Glasgow Coma Scale Scores of 8 or Less

Daniel P. Davis, Kent M. Koprowicz, Craig D. Newgard, Mohamud Daya, Eileen M. Bulger, Ian G. Stiell, Graham Nichol, Shannon W. Stephens, Jonathan Dreyer, Joseph P. Minei,

Prehospital Emergency Care · 2011 · 74 citations · 45 references

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Abstract

Patients in whom intubation is attempted have higher adjusted mortality. However, sites with a higher rate of attempted intubation have lower adjusted mortality across the entire cohort of trauma patients with GCS scores ≤ 8. Coma Scale score.

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