Emergency airway management in a morbidly obese, noncooperative, rapidly deteriorating patient

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 894-896

  Levitan, Richard M ^a   Chudnofsky, Carl ^a   Sapre, Nandita ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; X RAY;

ADULT; ANOXIA; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 33750613077     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2006.03.031     Document Type: Article

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