Out-of-hospital rapid sequence intubation: Is this really the "success" we envisioned?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 168-171

  Wang, Henry E ^a   Yealy, Donald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID SEQUENCE INTUBATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036316171     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mem.2002.126370     Document Type: Article

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