Video laryngoscopy improves intubation success and reduces esophageal intubations compared to direct laryngoscopy in the medical intensive care unit

Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Mosier, Jarrod M ^a   Whitmore, Sage P ^a   Bloom, John W ^a   Snyder, Linda S ^a   Graham, Lisa A ^a   Carr, Gordon E ^a   Sakles, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; TOOTH INJURY; VIDEO LARYNGOSCOPY; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESOPHAGUS; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEORECORDING;

ESOPHAGUS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84885342933     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc13061     Document Type: Article

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