Equipment and strategies for emergency tracheal access in the adult patient

Anaesthesia

Volumn 66, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages 65-80

  Hamaekers, A E ^a   Henderson, J J ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b GARTNAVEL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CRICOID; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PERCUTANEOUS AIRWAY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYOID BONE; HYPOXEMIA; INCIDENCE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX CARTILAGE; LARYNX INJURY; LARYNX SPASM; LUNG BAROTRAUMA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGENATION; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REOXYGENATION; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN INCISION; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRACHEOTOMY; VOICE CHANGE;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CRICOID CARTILAGE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; OPERATING ROOMS; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEA; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 81155146129     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06936.x     Document Type: Article

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