Emergency airway management by non-anaesthesia house officers - A comparison of three strategies

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 90-94

  Döges, Volker ^a   Ocker, H ^a   Wenzel, Volker ^b   Sauer, C ^a   Schmucker, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bag valve mask; Combitube; Gastric regurgitation; Laryngeal mask airway; Tidal volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BREATHING APPARATUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FACE MASK; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; PEDIATRICS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RESPIRATORY ARREST; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH INTUBATION; TIDAL VOLUME;

ADULT; CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MASKS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; RESUSCITATION; TIDAL VOLUME; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES;

EID: 0035686392     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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