The 'Can't Intubate Can't Oxygenate' scenario in Pediatric Anesthesia: A comparison of different devices for needle cricothyroidotomy

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1155-1158

  Stacey, Jonathan ^a   Heard, Andrew M B ^b   Chapman, Gordon ^b   Wallace, Catherine J ^a,b   Hegarty, Mary ^a   Vijayasekaran, Shyan ^a,c   Von Ungern Sternberg, Britta S ^a,d  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

anesthesia; animal model; child; difficult airway; pediatric

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; AUTOPSY; CANNULA OVER NEEDLE DEVICE; CANNULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; NEEDLE; NEEDLE TRACHEOTOMY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY EQUIPMENT; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRACHEA; TRACHEOTOMY;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRICOID CARTILAGE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; NEEDLES; OXYGEN; PEDIATRICS; RABBITS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEOTOMY;

EID: 84868652641     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pan.12048     Document Type: Article

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