Major complications of airway management in the UK: Results of the Fourth National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Difficult Airway Society. Part 2: Intensive care and emergency departments

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 632-642

  Cook, T M ^a   Woodall, N ^b   Harper, J ^c   Benger, J ^d  

^a ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

airway; audit; brain damage; complications; cricothyroidotomy; death; emergency department; intensive care; tracheostomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CAPNOGRAPHY; CHILD; DEATH; DIFFICULT AIRWAY SOCIETY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NATIONAL AUDIT PROJECT OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ANESTHETISTS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; TRACHEOTOMY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79954556594     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aer059     Document Type: Article

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