Can novice sonographers accurately locate an endotracheal tube with a saline-filled cuff in a cadaver model? A pilot study

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 361-364

  Uya, Atim ^a,c   Spear, Dave ^a   Patel, Kalpesh ^a   Okada, Pam ^a   Sheeran, Paul ^b   McCreight, Audra ^a,d  

^a CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ESOPHAGUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PILOT STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAFF TRAINING; TRACHEA;

ADULT; CADAVER; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ESOPHAGUS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PEDIATRICS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TEXAS; TRACHEA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84858995539     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01306.x     Document Type: Article

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