Adult foreign body airway obstruction in the prehospital setting

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-29

  Soroudi, Arash ^b   Shipp, Holly E ^a   Stepanski, Barbara M ^a   Ray, Leslie Upledger ^a   Murrin, Patricia A ^a   Chan, Theodore C ^b   Davis, Daniel P ^b   Vilke, Gary M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

^b UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult; Choking; Foreign body; Paramedic

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ATROPINE; BICARBONATE; LIDOCAINE;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CONSCIOUSNESS; DATA BASE; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FORCEPS; FOREIGN BODY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEIMLICH MANEUVER; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; MEDICINE; MORTALITY; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT CARE; PILL; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; VITAL SIGN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CALIFORNIA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33845729330     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120601023263     Document Type: Article

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