Difficult prehospital endotracheal intubation - predisposing factors in a physician based EMS

Resuscitation

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1519-1524

  Breckwoldt, Jan ^a   Klemstein, Sebastian ^a   Brunne, Bergit ^a   Schnitzer, Luise ^a   Mochmann, Hans Christian ^a   Arntz, Hans Richard ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emergency medical service; Emergency physicians; Endotracheal intubation; Prehospital airway management; Prehospital endotracheal intubation

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; DIFFICULT ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FACE INJURY; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INCIDENCE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH; NECK; NECK INJURY; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; PHYSICIANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80855138679     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.06.028     Document Type: Article

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