The effectiveness of out-of-hospital use of continuous end-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring on the rate of unrecognized misplaced intubation within a regional emergency medical services system

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 497-503

  Silvestri, Salvatore ^a,b,c   Ralls, George A ^a,c   Krauss, Baruch ^d   Thundiyil, Josef ^a,c   Rothrock, Steven G ^a,b   Senn, Amy ^a   Carter, Eric ^a   Falk, Jay ^a,b  

^a ORLANDO REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Office of the Medical Director   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITORING; PATIENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EID: 17844371707     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.09.014     Document Type: Article

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