Airway incidents in critical care, the NPSA, medical training and capnography

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 354-357

  Goldhill, D R ^a   Cook, T M ^b,c   Waldmann, C S ^d  

^a ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL COLLEGE OF ANAESTHETISTS   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL BERKSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CAPNOGRAPHY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PATIENT SAFETY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INJURY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RISK MANAGEMENT; TRACHEOSTOMY; UNITED KINGDOM; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; INTENSIVE CARE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CAPNOGRAPHY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRITICAL CARE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 64149086646     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05856.x     Document Type: Editorial

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