Outcomes and long term follow-up after emergent cricothyroidotomy: Is routine conversion to tracheostomy necessary?

American Surgeon

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1707-1711

  Graham, David B ^a   Eastman, Alexander L ^a   Aldy, Kim N ^a   Carroll, Elizabeth A ^a   Minei, Joseph P ^a   Brakenridge, Scott C ^a   Phelan, Herb A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNX EDEMA; LARYNX STENOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRACHEOTOMY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADULT; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CRICOID CARTILAGE; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TEXAS; THYROID GLAND; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 83755177735     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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