Toomey™ syringe aspiration may be inaccurate in detecting esophageal intubation after gastric insufflation

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 337-340

  Chew, Gordon S ^a   Vilke, Gary M ^a   Davis, Daniel P ^a   Chan, Theodore C ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophageal detector device; Esophageal intubation; Gastric distention; Intubation; Toomey syringe

Indexed keywords

AERATION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEVICE INFECTION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STOMACH DISTENSION; SYRINGE; TRACHEA; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH;

ADULT; CADAVER; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSUFFLATION; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STOMACH; SYRINGES;

EID: 0036827154     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-4679(02)00574-7     Document Type: Article

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