The intuitive use of laryngeal airway tools by first year medical students

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 18-

  Bickenbach, Johannes ^a   Schälte, Gereon ^a   Beckers, Stefan ^a   Fries, Michael ^a   Derwall, Mattias ^a   Rossaint, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LARYNGEAL MASK; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; SKILL;

EID: 70449360026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-9-18     Document Type: Article

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