Variation in rapid sequence induction techniques: Current practice in Wales

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 54-59

  Koerber, J P ^a   Roberts, G E W ^b   Whitaker, R ^c   Thorpe, C M ^b  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b YSBYTY GWYNEDD   (United Kingdom)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; AGED; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PREGNANCY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; THIOPENTAL;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; APPENDECTOMY; CESAREAN SECTION; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HERNIA, HIATAL; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PREGNANCY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; THIOPENTAL; WALES;

EID: 58249094598     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05681.x     Document Type: Article

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