The Easytube for airway management in prehospital emergency medicine

Resuscitation

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1516-1520

  Chenaitia, Hichem ^a   Soulleihet, Valéry ^a   Massa, Horace ^b   Bessereau, Jacques ^a   Bourenne, Jeremy ^a   Michelet, Pierre ^a   Auffray, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Difficult airway management; Easytube; Prehospital emergency medicine

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DRUG INTOXICATION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES EDUCATION; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SAFETY; TOOTH INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78149412960     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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