Radiological validation of tracheal tube insertion depth in out-of-hospital and in-hospital emergency patients

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 973-977

  Geisser, W ^a   Maybauer, Dirk M ^b,c,d   Wolff, H ^b   Pfenninger, E ^b   Maybauer, M O ^b,c,d  

^a Department of Anaesthesiology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^c University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY PATIENT; ENDOBRONCHIAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE MALPOSITIONING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; POSITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRONCHI; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FOREIGN BODIES; GERMANY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MEDICAL ERRORS; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68149126069     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2009.06007.x     Document Type: Article

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