Prehospital advanced trauma life support: How should we manage the airway, and who should do it?

Critical Care

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-5

  Brambrink, Ansgar M ^a   Koerner, Ines P ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; HYPNOTIC AGENT; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT;

AIRWAY; ANESTHESIA; ASPHYXIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG ASPIRATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORTALITY; NOTE; OXYGENATION; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MEDICAL FUTILITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 1042280975     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc2420     Document Type: Note

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