Impact of Chemical, Biological, Radiation, and Nuclear Personal Protective Equipment on the performance of low- and high-dexterity airway and vascular access skills

Resuscitation

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1290-1295

  Castle, Nicholas ^a,c   Owen, Robert ^b,c   Hann, Mark ^d   Clark, Simon ^a   Reeves, David ^d   Gurney, Ian ^a  

^a FRIMLEY PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^c DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CBRN; Intubation; IO; IV access; LMA

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LARYNGEAL MASK; MEDICAL ERROR; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RADIATION PROTECTION; SKILL; TIME; VASCULAR ACCESS; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAMMA RAYS; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; X-RAYS;

EID: 70350009630     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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