Need for emergency surgical airway reduced by a comprehensive difficult airway program

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1860-1869

  Berkow, Lauren C ^a   Greenberg, Robert S ^a   Kan, Kristin H ^a   Colantuoni, Elizabeth ^a   Mark, Lynette J ^a   Flint, Paul W ^a   Corridore, Marco ^b   Bhatti, Nasir ^a   Heitmiller, Eugenie S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRACHEOTOMY;

EID: 73949123843     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181b2531a     Document Type: Article

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