Airway management by first responders when using a bag-valve device and two oxygen-driven resuscitators in 104 patients

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 361-366

  Noordergraaf, Gerrit J ^a   Van Dun, P J ^a   Kramer, B P ^a   Schors, M P ^a   Hornman, H P ^b   De Jong, W ^a   Noordergraaf, A ^c  

^a CPRLab   (Netherlands)

^b Fire Department   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency treatment, respiration artificial, first aid; Equipment and supplies, ventilators, mechanical; Healthcare quality assessment and evaluation, technology assessment, biomedical

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AIRFLOW; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BAG VALVE DEVICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FACE MASK; FEMALE; FIRE FIGHTER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN DRIVEN RESUSCITATOR; OXYGEN THERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH INSUFFLATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSUFFLATION; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE RELAXANTS, CENTRAL; PROPOFOL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUFENTANIL; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 2342612072     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0265021504005022     Document Type: Article

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