Let's make endotracheal intubation in the intensive care unit safe: Difficult or not, the MACOCHA score is a good start

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 187, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 789-790

  Ghamande, Shekhar A ^a   Arroliga, Alejandro C ^a   Ciceri, David P ^a  

^a SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEART ARREST; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNGOSCOPY; MEDICAL STUDENT; NONINVASIVE VENTILATION; PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESUSCITATION; SAFETY; SHOCK; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84876884371     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201301-0099ED     Document Type: Editorial

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