Emergency airway management - Experience of a tertiary hospital in south-east Asia

Resuscitation

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 349-355

  Wong, Evelyn ^a   Fong, Yuke Tien ^a   Ho, Khoy Kheng ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Airway management; Cardiac arrest; Cricothyroidotomy; Critiroidotomia; hipotens o; Hypotension; Intuba o; Intubation; Manejo de v a a rea; Manuseio da via a rea; Paragem card aca; Trauma

Indexed keywords

APNEA; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHETICS; CHILD; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; HYPOTENSION; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENTS; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 2542486441     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2004.01.011     Document Type: Article

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