Anaesthesia in prehospital emergencies and in the emergency room

Resuscitation

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 148-154

  Paal, Peter ^a   Herff, Holger ^a   Mitterlechner, Thomas ^a   von Goedecke, Achim ^b   Brugger, Hermann ^a,c   Lindner, Karl H ^a   Wenzel, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Krankenhaus Steyr   (Austria)

^c International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airway; Anaesthesia; Emergency medical services; Intubation; Resuscitation; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ETOMIDATE; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; METHOHEXITAL; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SUFENTANIL; SUGAMMADEX; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ASTHMA; CAPNOGRAPHY; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DRUG CHOICE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FACE MASK; FLUSHING; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; LARYNGOSCOPE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; VENTILATED PATIENT;

ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMANS;

EID: 74249102207     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.10.023     Document Type: Short Survey

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