Conversion of emergent cricothyrotomy to tracheotomy in trauma patients

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-91

  Talving, Peep ^a   DuBose, Joseph ^a   Inaba, Kenji ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MEDLINE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; TRACHEOTOMY;

EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MUSCLES; TRACHEAL STENOSIS; TRACHEOTOMY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 74549171619     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2009.137     Document Type: Review

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