Blind nosotracheal intubation for patients with penetrating neck trauma

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1097-1101

  Weitzel, Nathaen ^a   Kendall, John ^a,b   Pons, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Mail Code 0108 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Blind nasotracheal intubation; Penetrating neck trauma; Prehospital airway management; Rapid sequence intubation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY DYNAMICS; BLIND NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; NECK INJURY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ARTICLE; CHILD; DYSPNEA; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEMATOMA; HEMOPTYSIS; LARYNX DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RESCUE PERSONNEL; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; COLORADO; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK INJURIES; PATIENT SELECTION; REGISTRIES; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOICE DISORDERS; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 2942737048     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000071294.21893.A4     Document Type: Review

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