Endotracheal tube exchangers: Should we look for safer alternatives?

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 67-69

  Harris, Kassem ^a   Chalhoub, Michel ^a   Maroun, Rabih ^a   Elsayegh, Dany ^a  

^a STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CIRCUMCISION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE EXCHANGE; EXTUBATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; LUNG AUSCULTATION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MORBID OBESITY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TIDAL VOLUME; TUBE;

ADULT; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX;

EID: 84455191875     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: 15273288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

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