Anesthesia practice in the emergency department: Overview, with a focus on airway management

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 373-378

  Mort, Thomas C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway management; Collaboration; Human error; System error

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ALGORITHM; ANESTHESIA; APTITUDE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INJURY; LUNG VENTILATION; MEDICAL CARE; OPERATING ROOM; OXYGENATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34447301252     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32825eabe7     Document Type: Review

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