Editorial: Prehospital intubation: The right tools in the right hands at the right time

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 303-305

  Herff, Holger ^a   Wenzel, Volker ^a   Lockey, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b FRENCHAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT;

ASSISTED VENTILATION; BRAIN INJURY; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; HYPOVENTILATION; HYPOXIA; LARYNGEAL MASK; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK; STAFF TRAINING; AIRCRAFT; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; NOTE;

AIRCRAFT; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 67849119684     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181ad8a1e     Document Type: Editorial

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