Intubation difficulty in poisoned patients: Association with initial glasgow coma scale score

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 123-127

  Adnet, Frédéric ^a,b   Borron, Stephen W ^a   Finot, Marie Agnès ^a   Lapandry, Claude ^b   Baud, Frédéric J ^a  

^a HÔPITAL FERNAND WIDAL   (France)

^b AVICENNE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Difficult intubation; Glasgow Coma Scale; Intubation; Out of hospital; Poisoning; Sedation protocol; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEDATION;

EID: 0031929775     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1998.tb02596.x     Document Type: Article

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