'Airway Alerts'. How UK anaesthetists organise, document and communicate difficult airway management

Anaesthesia

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-77

  Barron, F A ^a   Ball, D R ^a   Jefferson, P ^a   Norrie, J ^b  

^a Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirm ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airway: difficult, complications; Intubation, tracheal: difficult

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BOOK; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLLEGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STANDARD; TEACHER; UNITED KINGDOM;

COMMUNICATION; GREAT BRITAIN; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MEDICAL RECORDS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0037241219     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2003.02788_6.x     Document Type: Article

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