Dr. Richard M Levitan MD
Emergency Physician
9526 NE 2nd Ave Suite 101 Miami FL, 33138About
Dr. Richard Levitan practices Emergency Medicine in Miami, FL. Dr. Levitan assesses patients who seek immediate medical attention at any time of day or night. Emergency Medicine Physicians are trained to efficiently work with each patient and situation no matter how acute or life-threatening. Dr. Levitan examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses conditions, and decides the best treatment methods.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A new view on intubation training.
- Assessment of laryngeal view: percentage of glottic opening score vs Cormack and Lehane grading.
- A videographic analysis of laryngeal exposure comparing the articulating laryngoscope and external laryngeal manipulation.
- Training with video imaging improves the initial intubation success rates of paramedic trainees in an operating room setting.
- Myths and realities: the "difficult airway" and alternative airway devices in the emergency setting.
- Patient safety in emergency airway management and rapid sequence intubation: metaphorical lessons from skydiving.
- The Combitube as rescue device: recommended use of the small adult size for all patients six feet tall or shorter.
- Limitations of difficult airway prediction in patients intubated in the emergency department.
- Laryngoscopy and morbid obesity: a comparison of the "sniff" and "ramped" positions.
- Initial anatomic investigations of the I-gel airway: a novel supraglottic airway without inflatable cuff.
- Laryngeal view during laryngoscopy: a randomized trial comparing cricoid pressure, backward-upward-rightward pressure, and bimanual laryngoscopy.
- Design rationale and intended use of a short optical stylet for routine fiberoptic augmentation of emergency laryngoscopy.
- Stylet bend angles and tracheal tube passage using a straight-to-cuff shape.
- Emergency airway management in a morbidly obese, noncooperative, rapidly deteriorating patient.
- The mystique of direct laryngoscopy.
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