Airtraq vs standard laryngoscopy by student paramedics and experienced prehospital laryngoscopists managing a model of difficult intubation

Anaesthesia

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-31

  Woollard, M ^a,b   Lighton, D ^a   Mannion, W ^c   Watt, J ^a   McCrea, C ^a   Johns, I ^c   Hamilton, L ^a   O'Meara, P ^a   Cotton, C ^d   Smyth, M ^e  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Australian College of Ambulance Professionals New South Wales Branch   (Australia)

^d Australian College of Ambulance Professionals South Australia Branch   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; PARAMEDICAL STUDENT;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGUS; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MANIKINS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 36849046763     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.05263.x     Document Type: Article

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