Inadequate assessment of the airway and ventilation in acute poisoning. A need for improved education?

Resuscitation

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1999, Pages

  Cosgrove, Joseph F ^b   Gascoigne, Alistair D ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Advanced life support; Aspiration; Poisoning; Tracheal intubation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTOXICATION; INTUBATION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISONING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0344417061     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(99)00025-8     Document Type: Article

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