Richard M. Levitan
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Richard M. Levitan's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine University of Pittsburgh
Why Is Richard M. Levitan Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Mark Levitan is an American emergency medicine physician and businessperson. He is a clinical professor of medicine at Dartmouth College and a practicing physician at the Littleton Regional Hospital. He also runs a company that creates materials and runs events to teach emergency airway management.
Richard M. Levitan's Published Works
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Published Works
- Preoxygenation and prevention of desaturation during emergency airway management. (2012) (437)
- Laryngoscopy and Morbid Obesity: a Comparison of the "Sniff" and "Ramped" Positions (2004) (367)
- Early Self‐Proning in Awake, Non‐intubated Patients in the Emergency Department: A Single ED’s Experience During the COVID‐19 Pandemic (2020) (292)
- Initial anatomic investigations of the I‐gel airway: a novel supraglottic airway without inflatable cuff * (2005) (259)
- Assessment of airway visualization: validation of the percentage of glottic opening (POGO) scale. (1998) (224)
- Assessment of laryngeal view: Percentage of glottic opening scorevs Cormack and Lehane grading (1999) (177)
- The complexities of tracheal intubation with direct laryngoscopy and alternative intubation devices. (2011) (161)
- Head-elevated laryngoscopy position: improving laryngeal exposure during laryngoscopy by increasing head elevation. (2003) (138)
- Limitations of difficult airway prediction in patients intubated in the emergency department. (2004) (118)
- Laryngeal view during laryngoscopy: a randomized trial comparing cricoid pressure, backward-upward-rightward pressure, and bimanual laryngoscopy. (2006) (115)
- Anesthetic considerations for bariatric surgery: proper positioning is important for laryngoscopy. (2003) (100)
- Devices for difficult airway management in academic emergency departments: results of a national survey. (1999) (91)
- Alternating day emergency medicine and anesthesia resident responsibility for management of the trauma airway: a study of laryngoscopy performance and intubation success. (2003) (77)
- Training with video imaging improves the initial intubation success rates of paramedic trainees in an operating room setting. (2001) (68)
- Stylet bend angles and tracheal tube passage using a straight-to-cuff shape. (2006) (61)
- Use of a battery-operated needle driver for intraosseous access by novice users: skill acquisition with cadavers. (2009) (60)
- Use of the intubating laryngeal mask airway by medical and nonmedical personnel. (2000) (60)
- Bimanual laryngoscopy: a videographic study of external laryngeal manipulation by novice intubators. (2002) (47)
- Clinical Cadavers as a Simulation Resource for Procedural Learning (2018) (41)
- Airway management and direct laryngoscopy. A review and update. (2000) (35)
- A grading system for direct laryngoscopy (1999) (34)
- Design rationale and intended use of a short optical stylet for routine fiberoptic augmentation of emergency laryngoscopy. (2006) (33)
- Patient safety in emergency airway management and rapid sequence intubation: metaphorical lessons from skydiving. (2003) (26)
- A new tool for teaching and supervising direct laryngoscopy. (1996) (25)
- Airway management outside the operating room: how to better prepare (2017) (23)
- Explaining the variable effect on laryngeal view obtained with the McCoy laryngoscope (1999) (21)
- A Videographic Analysis of Laryngeal Exposure Comparing the Articulating Laryngoscope and External Laryngeal Manipulation (2001) (21)
- Pulse Oximetry as a Biomarker for Early Identification and Hospitalization of COVID‐19 Pneumonia (2020) (20)
- The Airway Cam Guide to Intubation and Practical Emergency Airway Management (2004) (17)
- The importance of a laryngoscopy strategy and optimal conditions in emergency intubation. (2005) (14)
- Video laryngoscopy, regardless of blade shape, still requires a backup plan. (2013) (14)
- Myths and realities: the "difficult airway" and alternative airway devices in the emergency setting. (2001) (14)
- Light intensity of curved laryngoscope blades in Philadelphia emergency departments. (2007) (12)
- Contrary to popular belief and traditional instruction, the larynx is sighted one eye at a time during direct laryngoscopy. (1998) (11)
- Safety of succinylcholine in myasthenia gravis. (2005) (9)
- Demystifying Direct Laryngoscopy and Intubation (2000) (9)
- Front-of-neck airway meets front-of-neck simulation: improving cricothyroidotomy skills using a novel open-access three-dimensional model and the Airway App (2017) (8)
- Assessing Mallampati Scores, Thyromental Distance, and Neck Mobility in Emergency Department Intubated Patients (2003) (8)
- Rescuing intubation. Simple techniques to improve airway visualization. (2001) (7)
- Emergency airway management in a morbidly obese, noncooperative, rapidly deteriorating patient. (2006) (6)
- The mystique of direct laryngoscopy. (2007) (5)
- The Cric-Key™ and Cric-Knife™: a combined tube-introducer and scalpel-hook open cricothyrotomy system. (2014) (5)
- POGO score (2000) (4)
- Performance failure of a colorimetric end-tidal CO2 detector. (2009) (4)
- Redirecting the Laryngoscopy Debate and Optimizing Emergency Airway Management (2020) (3)
- The Effect of Stylet Bend Angle on Tracheal Tube Passage Using a Straight-to-Cuff Shape (2005) (3)
- Upper Airway Retraction (2012) (3)
- Hypoxia during Emergency Department Intubation: Relationship to Repeat Laryngoscopy and Time to Intubation (2006) (3)
- A new view on intubation training. (1998) (2)
- Bimanual Laryngoscopy: A Videographic Study (2002) (2)
- 291: Improving Intubation Success Rates in a Low Volume EMS System through Best Practice Training and Performance (2007) (2)
- The Combitube as rescue device: recommended use of the small adult size for all patients six feet tall or shorter. (2004) (2)
- Pressing on the Neck during Laryngoscopy: A Comparison of Cricoid Pressure, Backward Upward Rightward Pressure, and External Laryngeal Manipulation (2005) (2)
- Occult cervical spine fracture in a wilderness setting (1994) (2)
- Comparing the Articulating Laryngoscope and External Laryngeal Manipulation (2001) (1)
- Tracheal Intubation around the Combitube: A Prospective Study on a Cadaveric Model (2007) (1)
- Feasibility of an Inflatable Ramp for Positioning Obese Patients for Emergency Intubation (2006) (1)
- Cricoid Pressure Impedes First-pass Intubation Success and Contributes to Difficult Laryngoscopy in Emergency Airways (2006) (0)
- Tracheal Tube Stylet Shape and Its Effect on Target Visualization and Tip Maneuverability (2003) (0)
- The Role of Optical Stylets (2013) (0)
- A New Laryngeal Tube (2013) (0)
- The High-Risk Airway. (2020) (0)
- Design and Brightness of Curved Laryngoscope Blades in Philadelphia Emergency Departments (2006) (0)
- Practical Emergency Airway Management (2011) (0)
- DELIVERING THE TUBE TO THE TARGET : GETTING AROUND THE CURVATURE OF THE TONGUE TO THE GLOTTIC OPENING (2011) (0)
- The glidescope video laryngoscope in the hands of novice users: Seeing the larynx does not correlate with intubation success (2004) (0)
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