A new external upper airway opening device combined with a cervical collar

Resuscitation

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 817-821

  Lubovsky, Omri ^a   Liebergall, Meir ^a   Weissman, Charles ^a   Yuval, Meros ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Air way; Cervical collar; Device; External; Supraglottic obstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL COLLAR; CERVICAL SPINE; CHIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; MALE; MANDIBLE; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRACE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; DEVICE SAFETY; DEVICES; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BRACES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953716507     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.02.013     Document Type: Article

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