Endotracheal tube intracuff pressure during helicopter transport

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Bassi, Marco ^a   Zuercher, Mathias ^a   Erne, Jean Jacques ^a   Ummenhofer, Wolfgang ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANOMETER; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; INJURY; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; STANDARD; TIME; TRACHEA; TRACHEA STENOSIS;

AIR AMBULANCES; ALTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEA; TRACHEAL STENOSIS;

EID: 77955287114     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.01.025     Document Type: Article

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