Unanticipated difficult airway in obstetric patients: Development of a new algorithm for formative assessment in high-fidelity simulation

Anesthesiology

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 883-897

  Balki, Mrinalini ^a   Cooke, Mary Ellen ^a   Dunington, Susan ^b   Salman, Aliya ^a   Goldszmidt, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b The Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALGORITHM; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CHECKLIST; FETUS DISTRESS; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OBSTETRIC PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESIDENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADULT; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANESTHESIOLOGY; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MANIKINS; NUCHAL CORD; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; OBSTETRICS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; VASA PREVIA;

EID: 84866733865     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31826903bd     Document Type: Article

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