Prehospital anaesthesia performed in a rural and suburban air ambulance service staffed by a physician and paramedic: A 16-month review of practice

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 65-68

  Chesters, Adam ^a   Keefe, Nadine ^a   Mauger, Jeremy ^a   Lockey, David ^b  

^a EAST ANGLIAN AIR AMBULANCE   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON'S AIR AMBULANCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; HUMAN; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SUPRAGLOTTIC AIRWAY DEVICE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACUTE MEDICINE-OTHER;

AIR AMBULANCES; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; ANESTHESIA, INTRATRACHEAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; ENGLAND; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PATIENT CARE TEAM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84891871909     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2012-201846     Document Type: Article

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