Drug-assisted intubation in the prehospital setting (resource document to NAEMSP position statement)

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 261-271

  Wang, Henry E ^a,e   Davis, Daniel P ^b   O'Connor, Robert E ^c   Domeier, Robert M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d ST JOSEPH MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Department of Emergency Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DIAZEPAM; ETOMIDATE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE;

AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LARYNGOSCOPY; MEDICAL ERROR; MONITORING; PARALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SEDATION;

CONGRESSES; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENTS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SOCIETIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644973953     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120500541506     Document Type: Review

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