Emergency department staff can effectively resuscitate in level C personal protective equipment

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 113-121

  Udayasiri, Ruwangi ^a   Knott, Jonathan ^a,b   McD Taylor, David ^a   Papson, Jonathan ^a   Leow, Fiona ^a   Hassan, Fariza A ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contamination; Emergency; Resuscitation; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANNULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY NURSE PRACTITIONER; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; GLOVE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INJURY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MASK; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESUSCITATION; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; PATIENT SIMULATION; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESUSCITATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 34247280967     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2007.00918.x     Document Type: Article

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