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Table 1 Primary diagnoses

From: The difficult airway in the emergency department

Diagnoses

Difficult cases

Total

% Total

Seizure

4

24

16.7

Burns

5

34

14.7

Pneumonia

8

65

12.3

Trauma

22

310

7.1

CVA

5

158

3.2

Cardiac arrest

28

917

3.1

Other

8

275

2.9

Acute pulmonary oedema

10

422

2.4

Asthma

3

138

2.2

Total

93

2343

4.0

  1. CVA cerebrovascular accident