The king LT versus the combitube: Flight crew performance and preference

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 324-328

  Tumpach, Elizabeth A ^a   Lutes, Michael ^a   Ford, Dennis ^a   Lerner, E Brooke ^a  

^a Department of Emergency Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Airway; Combitube; Intubation, intratracheal; King LT; Prehospital emergency care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; AIRPLANE CREW; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NURSE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESCUE PERSONNEL; STANDARD;

ADULT; AIR AMBULANCES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 69849105213     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120902935322     Document Type: Article

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