The combitube, self-inflating bulb, and colorimetric carbon dioxide detector to advance airway management in the first echelon of the battlefield

Military Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 389-395

  Rich, James M ^a   Thierbach, Andreas ^b   Frass, Michael ^c  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BREATHING; CARBON DIOXIDE MEASUREMENT; COLORIMETRY; DEVICE; DOUBLE LUMEN TUBE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; TRAINING;

EID: 33646542655     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.171.5.389     Document Type: Article

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