Airway management disasters in the ICU - lessons learned?

Critical Care

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Byhahn, Christian ^a   Cavus, Erol ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; APNEA; BRAIN DAMAGE; CAPNOGRAPHY; DISASTER; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; IRELAND; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; MEDICAL DEVICE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NOTE; OPERATING ROOM; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VIDEO LARYNGOSCOPY; DEVICES; FEMALE; MALE; PROCEDURES; UTILIZATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; MALE;

EID: 84868111124     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc11641     Document Type: Note

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