Adverse events during rotary-wing transport of mechanically ventilated patients: A retrospective cohort study

Critical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Seymour, Christopher W ^a   Kahn, Jeremy M ^b   Schwab, C William ^b   Fuchs, Barry D ^b  

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

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEATH; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRACHEOSTOMY; VENTILATED PATIENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED;

AIR AMBULANCES; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 44649084343     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc6909     Document Type: Article

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