Drug-assisted effects on protective airway reflexes during out-of-hospital endotracheal intubation (Preliminary Report)

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 472-475

  Cole, Christopher D ^a   Wang, Henry E ^a   Abo, Benjamin N ^a   Yealy, Donald M ^a  

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

Author keywords

Drug assisted intubation; Endotracheal intubation; Protective airway reflexes

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; DIAZEPAM; ETOMIDATE; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT; SUXAMETHONIUM; TOPICAL AGENT; VECURONIUM;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBATIVENESS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG ASSISTED INTUBATION; DRUG EFFECT; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; LARYNX MUSCLE; LARYNX MUSCLE RELAXATION; LARYNX SPASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MYOCLONUS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PROTECTIVE AIRWAY REFLEX; RAPID SEQUENCE INTUBATION; REFLEX; SEIZURE; TRISMUS; UNITED STATES; VOMITING REFLEX;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; REFLEX;

EID: 33749016784     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120600885167     Document Type: Article

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