Heliox in Airway Management

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 905-920

  McGarvey, Jane M ^a   Pollack, Charles V ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway management; Heliox; Helium; Helium oxygen

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; HELIOX; HELIUM;

AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ASTHMA; ASTHMATIC STATE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CALCULATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROUP; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LAMINAR AIRFLOW; LARYNGOTRACHEOBRONCHITIS; LUNG COMPLIANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STRIDOR; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; VOCAL CORD DISORDER; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 57049088637     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2008.07.007     Document Type: Review

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