Prehospital airway management on rescue helicopters in the United Kingdom

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 625-631

  Schmid, Markus ^a   Mang, H ^a   Ey, K ^b   Schuttler J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Department of Anesthesiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FACE MASK; HELICOPTER; MEDICAL STAFF; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRACHEOTOMY; UNITED KINGDOM; VENTILATOR;

AIR AMBULANCES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MEDICAL STAFF; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 66349096639     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05859.x     Document Type: Article

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