Point: Should an anesthesiologist be the specialist of choice in managing the difficult airway in the ICU? Yes

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Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1372-1374

  Walz, J Matthias ^a   Doerschug, Kevin C ^b,c  

^a UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CONTINUING EDUCATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNGOSCOPY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAFF TRAINING; VIDEOENDOSCOPY;

EID: 84870626847     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.12-2194     Document Type: Editorial

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