Challenges facing the anesthesiologist in the emergency department

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 409-416

  Kramer, David C ^a   Grass, Gerald ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Anesthesiology; Conscious sedation; Difficult airway; Emergency; Endotracheal; Failed intubation; Intubation; Laryngeal masks; Laryngoscope; Medicine; Neck; Neuromuscular blocking agents; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ETOMIDATE; FENTANYL; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; KETAMINE; METHOHEXITAL; MIDAZOLAM; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; PROPOFOL; SUFENTANIL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIRWAY; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHESIST; APNEA; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHOSPASM; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INFANT; INTUBATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNX SPASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOCLONUS; NECK INJURY; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; STRIDOR; VOMITING;

EID: 0042626253     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-200308000-00007     Document Type: Review

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