Prehospital airway management: High tech meets trauma: An air medical perspective

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 281-291

  Bauer, Kris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

direct laryngoscopy; endotracheal intubation; GlideScope Ranger; prehospital; video laryngoscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMERA; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOCAPNIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; IMMOBILIZATION; INJURY; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESPIRATION CONTROL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VIDEO LARYNGOSCOPY;

AIR AMBULANCES; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; VIDEO RECORDING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84862181290     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: 15505111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CNQ.0b013e3182542eb5     Document Type: Article

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