Current status of emergency airway management for elderly patients in Korea: Multicentre study using the Korean Emergency Airway Management Registry

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 439-444

  Cho, Junho ^a   Cho, Young Soon ^b   You, Je Sung ^c   Lee, Hye Sun ^c   Kim, Hyunjong ^d   Chung, Hyun Soo ^c  

^a Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Soonchunhyang University   (South Korea)

^c Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Inje University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Aged; Airway management; Emergencies

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BRONCHUS INJURY; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTUBATION; LARYNX INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID SEQUENCE INTUBATION; REGISTER; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTH KOREA; TOOTH INJURY; VOMITING;

AGED; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCIES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REGISTRIES; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84885175879     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.12122     Document Type: Article

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