Making tracheal intubation safer in the critically ill patient

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2716-2717

  Walz, J Matthias ^a   Heard, Stephen O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway; Hypoxemia; Intubation; Laryngoscopy; Preoxygenation

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY PRESSURE; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG VENTILATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OXYGENATION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY;

EID: 27944485687     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000186889.22894.B1     Document Type: Editorial

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