Learning curves for bag-and-mask ventilation and orotracheal intubation: An application of the cumulative sum method

Anesthesiology

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1525-1531

  Komatsu, Ryu ^a   Kasuya, Yusuke ^a   Yogo, Hisanori ^a   Sessler, Daniel I ^b   Mascha, Edward ^b   Yang, Dongsheng ^b   Ozaki, Makoto ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASK; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77953028422     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181d96779     Document Type: Article

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