Emergency tracheal intubation of severely head-injured children: Changing daily practice after implementation of national guidelines

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-70

  Martinon, Claire ^a   Duracher, Caroline ^a   Blanot, Stéphane ^a   Escolano, Sylvie ^b   De Agostini, Maria ^b   Périé Vintras, Anne Catherine ^a   Orliaguet, Gilles ^a   Carli, Pierre A ^a   Meyer, Philippe G ^a  

^a Pediatric Surgical Critical Care Unit   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

brain injury; children; emergency tracheal intubation; guidelines; rapid sequence induction

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; ETOMIDATE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; OPIATE; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BLOOD GAS; CAPNOGRAPHY; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HAEMOPHILUS; HUMAN; HYPOCAPNIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OXYGENATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PULSE OXIMETER; RAPID SEQUENCE INDUCTION; STANDARDIZATION; STREPTOCOCCUS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 78751647176     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3181e2a244     Document Type: Article

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