Emergency airway access in children - Transtracheal cannulas and tracheotomy assessed in a porcine model

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1159-1165

  Holm Knudsen, Rolf J ^a   Rasmussen, Lars S ^a   Charabi, Birgitte ^a   Bøttger, Morten ^a   Kristensen, Michael S ^a  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

Author keywords

airway algorithm; animal model; children; difficult airway; emergency tracheotomy; transtracheal cannula

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CANNULA; CATHETER; CATHETER COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; JET VENTILATION; JET VENTILATION CATHETER; LARYNGEAL MASK; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; TRACHEOTOMY; TRANSTRACHEAL CANNULA; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ANIMALS; CATHETERIZATION; CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HIGH-FREQUENCY JET VENTILATION; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PHYSICIANS; SWINE; TRACHEA; TRACHEOTOMY;

EID: 84868631601     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pan.12045     Document Type: Article

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