Emergency cricothyroidotomy: Training is paramount and oxygenation is the aim

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 447-448

  Lacquiere, A ^a   Heard, A M B ^a  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHESIST; CANNULA; CANNULATION; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; LETTER; OXYGENATION; SURGICAL TRAINING; TRACHEOTOMY; CRICOID; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY; LARYNX CARTILAGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; OXYGEN THERAPY;

CRICOID CARTILAGE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; THYROID CARTILAGE; TRACHEOTOMY;

EID: 64149101387     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2009.05899_1.x     Document Type: Letter

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