Prehospital airway management: A prospective evaluation of anaesthesia trained emergency physicians

Resuscitation

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 179-185

  Timmermann, Arnd ^a   Eich, Christoph ^a   Russo, Sebastian G ^a   Natge, Ulrich ^a   Bräuer, Anselm ^a   Rosenblatt, William H ^b   Braun, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway management; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); Combitube; Laryngeal mask airway; Laryngoscopy; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY CARE; RESUSCITATION; TRACHEOTOMY; TRAINING;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIOLOGY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33746868388     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2006.01.010     Document Type: Article

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