Techniques for the difficult airway

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 9-15

  Niven, Alexander S ^a   Doerschug, Kevin C ^b  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

airway management; critical care; difficult airway; failed airway; intubation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BOUGIE; BREATHING CIRCUIT; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; EXTRAGLOTTIC AIRWAY; GUM ELASTIC BOUGIE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STAFF; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OXYGENATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY EQUIPMENT; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEAMWORK; TOOTH INJURY; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPY; VIDEORECORDING; WAKEFULNESS;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANESTHESIA; ANOXIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84872199006     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e32835c6014     Document Type: Review

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