Prehospital endotracheal intubation; need for routine cuff pressure measurement?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 851-853

  Peters, Joost H ^a   Hoogerwerf, Nico ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; AMBULANCE; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; LUNG CONTUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANOMETER; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY CARE SYSTEMS; PARAMEDICS; PREHOSPITAL CARE; PREHOSPITAL CARE, HELICOPTER RETRIEVAL;

AIR AMBULANCES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MANOMETRY; NETHERLANDS; PRESSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84884592486     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2012-201388     Document Type: Article

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