The PTL, combitube, laryngeal mask, and oral airway: A randomized prehospital comparative study of ventilatory device effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in 470 cases of cardiorespiratory arrest

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-10

  Rumball, Christopher J ^a   MacDonald, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

airway devices; emergency medical assistants; oral airway; ventilatory devices

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SPIROMETRY; STANDARD; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPIROMETRY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030622475     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903129708958776     Document Type: Article

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