An evidence-based approach to airway management: Is there a role for clinical practice guidelines?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 66, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages 112-118

  Crosby, E T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

AIRWAY; ALGORITHM; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXTUBATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STAFF TRAINING;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 81155146095     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06940.x     Document Type: Article

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