Training and experience are more important than the type of practitioner for intubation success

Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Fouche, Pieter F ^a   Middleton, Paul M ^b   Zverinova, Kristina M ^a  

^a Greater Sydney Area Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Ambulance Service New South Wales Rescue Helicopter Base Bankstown Airport   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; LETTER; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPONSIBILITY; STAFF TRAINING; WORK EXPERIENCE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PATIENT SAFETY;

EID: 84873524262     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc11924     Document Type: Letter

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