Rapid sequence induction in children - It's not a matter of time!

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 97-99

  Weiss, Markus ^a   Gerber, Andreas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUXAMETHONIUM;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CHILD; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; MORBIDITY; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; OXYGEN BREATHING; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID SEQUENCE INDUCTION; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; VOMITING;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANOXIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; RESPIRATORY ASPIRATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 37749038216     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2007.02324.x     Document Type: Editorial

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