Revisiting the value of pre-hospital tracheal intubation: An all time systematic literature review extracting the Utstein airway core variables

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lossius, Hans M ^a,b   Sollid, Stephen J M ^a,b,c   Rehn, Marius ^a,d,e   Lockey, David J ^f,g  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^f ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g FRENCHAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; EMBASE; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDLINE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATION CONTROL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADULT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVIDENCE BASED EMERGENCY MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EVIDENCE-BASED EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78651426426     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc9973     Document Type: Article

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