Improvement in emergency airway equipment transport

Respiratory Care

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 852-857

  Wilcox, Susan R ^a   Bittner, Edward ^a   George, Edward ^a   Buckley, Valerie Farias ^a   Schmidt, Ulrich H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway equipment; Fomite; Infection control; Laryngoscope bag; Nosocomial infection; Transport

Indexed keywords

NYLON;

AIRWAY; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; EMERGENCY CARE; ENTEROCOCCUS; FOMITE; HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INTUBATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT TRANSPORT; RISK REDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION;

EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MANIKINS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 77955496352     PISSN: 00201324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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