Urgent airway intervention: Does outcome change with personnel performing the procedure?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1162-1165

  Tracy, Susanne ^a   Schinco, Miren A ^a,b   Griffen, Margaret M ^a   Kerwin, Andrew J ^a   Devin, Terry ^a   Tepas, Joseph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Length of hospital and ICU stay; Nosocomial pneumonia; Pneumonia; Prehospital endotracheal intubation; Resistant organisms; Trauma center endotracheal intubation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750963696     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000243887.90697.06     Document Type: Article

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