Experienced emergency medicine physicians cannot safely inflate or estimate endotracheal tube cuff pressure using standard techniques

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-143

  Hoffman, Robert J ^a   Parwani, Vivek ^b   Hahn, In Hei ^c  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENDOTRACHEAL CUFF; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PALPATION; PHYSICIAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIMULATION; THERAPEUTIC ERROR;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRACHEA;

EID: 33144483083     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2005.07.016     Document Type: Article

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