The formulation and introduction of a 'can't intubate, can't ventilate' algorithm into clinical practice

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 601-608

  Heard, A M B ^a   Green, R J ^b   Eakins, P ^a  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BOURNEMOUTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; JET VENTILATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NONHUMAN; TRACHEOTOMY;

ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRICOID CARTILAGE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MANIKINS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; THYROID CARTILAGE; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 65449165358     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2009.05888.x     Document Type: Article

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