Improving documentation in prehospital rapid sequence intubation: Investigating the use of a dedicated airway registry form

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 324-326

  Bloomer, Roger ^a,b   Burns, Brian J ^a   Ware, Sandra ^a  

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

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY REGISTRY FORM; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DISEASE REGISTRY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MEDICAL RECORDS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84884212801     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2011-200715     Document Type: Article

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