Manual resuscitators: Some inconvenient truths

Respiratory Care

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1638-1643

  Salyer, John W ^a  

^a Mail Stop B 3541 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHILD; CHILD CARE; DELIVERY ROOM; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; OXYGEN DELIVERY DEVICE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PEAK INSPIRATORY FLOW; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RESPIRATORY CARE; RESUSCITATION; TECHNOLOGY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OXYGEN; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 73449128031     PISSN: 00201324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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