The Bougie-Aided Cricothyrotomy

Air Medical Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 191-194

  Braude, Darren ^a,b,c   Webb, Heather ^a,b   Stafford, Jennifer ^b   Stulce, Paula ^b   Montanez, Lauri ^b   Kennedy, George ^a,b   Grimsley, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c University of Virginia ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AIR CONDITIONING; AIRWAY; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ARTICLE; BOUGIE; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; OROPHARYNX; PHARYNX TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TIME; TRACHEOTOMY; VITAL SIGN;

AIR AMBULANCES; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CRICOID CARTILAGE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67649562940     PISSN: 1067991X     EISSN: 15326497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amj.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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