Emergency physician-verified out-of-hospital intubation: Miss rates by paramedics

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 707-709

  Jones, James H ^a   Murphy, Michael P ^a   Dickson, Robert L ^a   Somerville, Geoff G ^a   Brizendine, Edward J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway; Intubation; Laryngoscopy; Out of hospital; Prehospital

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EID: 2942564583     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2003.12.026     Document Type: Article

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