Prospective study of airway management of children requiring endotracheal intubation before admission to a pediatric intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2058-2063

  Easley, R Blaine ^a   Segeleon, Joseph E ^b   Haun, Steven E ^b   Tobias, Joseph D ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway management; Chest radiograph; Complications; Endotracheal intubation; Intensive care unit; Mainstem intubations; Neuromuscular blocking agents; Pediatric; Sedative agents

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; PANCURONIUM; ROCURONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM; VECURONIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG CLEARANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033935130     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200006000-00065     Document Type: Article

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