Paramedic laryngoscopy in the simulated difficult airway: Comparison of the Venner A.P. advance and GlideScope Ranger video laryngoscopes

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 692-698

  Butchart, Angus G ^a,b   Tjen, Christine ^b   Garg, Atul ^a   Young, Peter ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM PATIENT; PROCESS MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MANIKINS; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 79960521688     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01115.x     Document Type: Article

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