Airway management

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 98-102

  Nee, Patrick A ^a   Benger, J ^b   Walls, R M ^c  

^a WHISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BRISTOL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETOMIDATE; PROPOFOL; SUXAMETHONIUM; VECURONIUM;

ADULT; AIRWAY; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEAD INJURY; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LUNG CONTUSION; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB FRACTURE; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX PAIN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; THORACIC INJURIES;

EID: 38849095695     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2005.030635     Document Type: Article

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