The quick look airway classification: A useful tool in predicting the difficult out-of-hospital intubation: Experience in an air medical transport program

Air Medical Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 46-50

  Duchynski, R ^a   Brauer, K ^b   Hutton, K ^b,c,d,e   Jones, S ^e   Rosen, P ^c,d  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Golden Hour Data Systems   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Air medicine; Airway management; Helicopter; Laryngoscopy; Orotracheal intubation; Out of hospital care; Prehospital care

Indexed keywords

AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FORECASTING; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AIR AMBULANCES; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CALIFORNIA; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032037740     PISSN: 1067991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1067-991X(98)90019-0     Document Type: Article

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