New formulae for predicting tracheal tube length

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1238-1243

  Lau, Nicky ^a   Playfor, Stephen D ^b   Rashid, Asrar ^c   Dhanarass, Muthu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intubation; Pediatric critical care; Pediatrics; Tracheal; Tracheal tubes

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; DATA ANALYSIS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; NEWBORN; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDIATRIC ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MOUTH; NOSE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRACHEA;

EID: 33751028700     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2006.01982.x     Document Type: Article

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