Prehospital Glidescope video laryngoscopy for difficult airway management in a helicopter rescue program with anaesthetists

European Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 282-284

  Struck, Manuel Florian ^a,b   Wittrock, Maike ^a,b   Nowak, Andreas ^a,b  

^a ACADEMIC TEACHING HOSPITAL DRESDEN FRIEDRICHSTADT   (Germany)

^b Helicopter Emergency Medical Service 'Christoph 62'   (Germany)

Author keywords

Difficult airway management; emergency medical service; Glidescope; helicopter; laryngoscopy; prehospital

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BURN; CERVICAL SPINE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESCUE WORK; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIDEOENDOSCOPY;

AIR AMBULANCES; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FACIAL INJURIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 80052486459     PISSN: 09699546     EISSN: 14735695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEJ.0b013e328344e70f     Document Type: Article

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