Strategies to prevent unrecognised oesophageal intubation during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Resuscitation

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-2

  Nolan, Jerry ^a  

^a ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APNEA; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CANADA; DEVICE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; LUNG COMPLIANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; RESUSCITATION; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKILL; SURVIVAL;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; ESOPHAGUS; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL;

EID: 36849029836     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2007.11.013     Document Type: Editorial

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