The usefulness of design of experimentation in defining the effect difficult airway factors and training have on simulator oral-tracheal intubation success rates in novice intubators

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 460-463

  Thomas, Frank ^a   Carpenter, Judi ^a   Rhoades, Carol ^a   Holleran, Renee ^a   Gregory, Snow ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intratracheal; Intubation; Laryngoscopy; Patient simulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; INTENSIVE CARE NURSING; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX SPASM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHARYNX DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TEACHING; TONGUE EDEMA; TRAINING; TRISMUS;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MANIKINS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY;

EID: 77951036877     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00706.x     Document Type: Article

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