Is ultrasound a feasible tool to verify endotracheal tube position in neonates?

Resuscitation

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mora Matilla, María ^a   Alonso Quintela, Paula ^a   Oulego Erroz, Ignacio ^a   Rodríguez Blanco, Silvia ^a   Gautreaux Minaya, Sandra ^a   Mata Zubillaga, Daniel ^a  

^a Gerencia Regional de Salud de Castilla y León   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPNOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LETTER; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN; TRACHEA;

EID: 84871383096     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2012.09.026     Document Type: Letter

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