Pre-hospital intubation by anaesthesiologists in patients with severe trauma: An audit of a Norwegian helicopter emergency medical service

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Sollid, Stephen J M ^a,b   Lossius, Hans M ^a,c   Søreide, Eldar ^b,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Norway)

^b STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; NORWAY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD;

AIR AMBULANCES; ANESTHESIOLOGY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; NORWAY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 77953334561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17577241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-7241-18-30     Document Type: Article

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