Airway Registry: A Performance Improvement Surveillance Project of Emergency Department Airway Management

American Journal of Medical Quality

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 346-350

  Phelan, Michael P ^a   Glauser, Jonathan ^a   Yuen, Ho Wang A ^b   Sturges Smith, Elizabeth ^a   Schrump, Stefanie E ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

airway; cricothyrotomy; endotracheal intubation; intubation; performance improvement; quality assurance; rapid sequence intubation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; METHODOLOGY; RESPIRATION CONTROL; STANDARD;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MEDICAL AUDIT; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 77956555921     PISSN: 10628606     EISSN: 1555824X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1062860610366590     Document Type: Article

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