Field intubation of patients with cardiac arrest: A dying art or just a question of timing?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-172

  Turgulov, Anuar ^a   Rac, Valeria ^a   Kierzek, Gerald ^a   Morrison, Laurie J ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC PATIENT; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LETTER; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78751530727     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2010.097808     Document Type: Letter

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