Ultrasound instead of capnometry for confirming tracheal tube placement in an emergency?

Resuscitation

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1259-1261

  Zechner, Peter Michael ^a   Breitkreutz, Raoul ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CAPNOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GOLD STANDARD; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; OPERATING ROOM; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; TRACHEA;

EID: 80052962116     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.06.040     Document Type: Editorial

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