Field intubation of cardiac arrest patients: A dying art?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 321-323

  Lyon, Richard M ^a   Ferris, John D ^b   Young, Danielle M ^a   McKeown, Dermot W ^a   Oglesby, Angela J ^a   Robertson, Colin ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NINEWELLS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77950827569     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.076737     Document Type: Article

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