Patient safety in emergency airway management and rapid sequence intubation: Metaphorical lessons from skydiving

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 81-87

  Levitan, Richard M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; LUNG VENTILATION; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; REVIEW; SAFETY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0038693247     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mem.2003.254     Document Type: Article

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