The use of the laryngeal tube disposable by paramedics during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A prospectively observational study (2008-2012)

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1012-1016

  Müller, Jens Uwe ^a   Semmel, Thomas ^b   Stepan, Roland ^b   Seyfried, Timo F ^a   Popov, Aron F ^c   Graf, Bernhard M ^a   Wiese, Christoph H R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Medical Administrative District of Fulda   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EMERGENCY CARE; FACE MASK; HUMAN; LARYNX SPASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MORBID OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OTOLARYNGOLOGY TUBE; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; TONGUE SWELLING; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; DEVICES; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART ARREST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887818914     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2012-201923     Document Type: Article

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