Effect of intensive physician oversight on a prehospital rapid-sequence intubation program

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 310-316

  Cushman, Jeremy T ^a,b   Zachary Hettinger, Aaron ^a   Farney, Aaron ^a   Shah, Manish N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency medical services; Paramedic; Physician oversight; Prehospital care; Rapid sequence intubation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; TIME;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77952968793     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10903121003760200     Document Type: Article

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