Surgical Cricothyroidotomy in Trauma Patients

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 465-467

  Wright, Mary Jo ^a   Greenberg, David E ^b   Hunt, John P ^b   Madan, Atul K ^b   McSwain Jr , Norman E ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Airway; Cricothyroidotomy; Resuscitation; Tracheostomy; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRACHEOTOMY; TRAUMATOLOGY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CRICOID; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; INJURY SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; THYROID GLAND; TIME; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRICOID CARTILAGE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID GLAND; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEOSTOMY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0041465885     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000054272.54341.60     Document Type: Article

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