Clinical audit: Optimal positioning of endotracheal tubes in neonates

Scottish Medical Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 25-27

  Whyte, Karen L ^a,b   Levin, R ^a   Powls, A ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEWBORN; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDIZATION; STERNUM; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34347219045     PISSN: 00369330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/rsmsmj.52.2.25     Document Type: Article

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