Challenges and Advances in Intubation: Airway Evaluation and Controversies with Intubation

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 977-1000

  Mace, Sharon Elizabeth ^a,b,c  

^a CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway evaluation; Endotracheal intubation; Intubation

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; SUXAMETHONIUM;

AIRWAY; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; BAG VALVE MASK; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVALUATION; FACE MASK; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; MASK; OXYGENATION; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; RAPID SEQUENCE INTUBATION; RATING SCALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; REVIEW; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 57149107818     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2008.09.003     Document Type: Review

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