A standardized rapid sequence intubation protocol facilitates airway management in critically injured patients

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1401-1405

  Ballow, Shana L ^a   Kaups, Krista L ^a   Anderson, Staci ^a   Chang, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

airway protocol; Ketamine; trauma patient

Indexed keywords

ETOMIDATE; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; ROCURONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM; VECURONIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FACE INJURY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANDROSTANOLS; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; KETAMINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; SUCCINYLCHOLINE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871225556     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318270dcf5     Document Type: Article

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