Usage and efficacy of airway adjuncts in an emergency intubation kit

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 514-515

  Tobin, Joshua M ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY DYNAMICS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; LETTER; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INJURY; VOCAL CORD;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 79961188013     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2011.01439.x     Document Type: Letter

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