Successful Training of HEMS Personnel in Laryngeal Mask Airway and Intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway Placement

Air Medical Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 185-187

  Frascone, R J ^a,b   Pippert, Greg ^a   Heegaard, William ^a,c   Molinari, Paul ^b   Dries, David ^b  

^a LifeLink III   (United States)

^b REGIONS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING;

AIR AMBULANCES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MANIKINS;

EID: 46049091340     PISSN: 1067991X     EISSN: 15326497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amj.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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