Drowning: Update 2009

Anesthesiology

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1390-1401

  Layon, A Joseph ^a   Modell, Jerome H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROWNING; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MORTALITY; NEAR DROWNING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SAFETY; ACID BASE BALANCE; ANIMAL; BREATHING MECHANICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; LUNG; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; NOMENCLATURE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ANIMALS; DROWNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; LUNG; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 67049155248     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181a4c3b8     Document Type: Review

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