Alternating Day Emergency Medicine and Anesthesia Resident Responsibility for Management of the Trauma Airway: A Study of Laryngoscopy Performance and Intubation Success

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-53

  Levitan, Richard M ^a,c   Rosenblatt, Boaz ^a   Meiner, Evan M ^b   Reilly, Patrick M ^a   Hollander, Judd E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INJURY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0346728932     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(03)00638-3     Document Type: Article

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