Can an airway assessment score predict difficulty at intubation in the emergency department?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-102

  Reed, Matt J ^a   Dunn, M J G ^a   McKeown, D W ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY DYNAMICS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISOR; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MOUTH EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THYROID GLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; INCISOR; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; NECK; PHARYNX; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 13544261456     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2003.008771     Document Type: Article

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