Airway management issues in the intensive care unit: Revisiting old paradigms and broadening our horizons

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Keck Jr , Jeffrey P ^a   Mort, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CAPNOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTUBATION; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNGOSCOPY; OXYGENATION; PATIENT SAFETY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; REVIEW; TRACHEOTOMY;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ALGORITHMS; CONNECTICUT; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; VENTILATOR WEANING;

EID: 79955598059     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: 15226662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20101019     Document Type: Review

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