Intubating laryngeal mask airway placement by non-physician healthcare providers in management out-of-hospital cardiac arrests: A case series

Resuscitation

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 320-325

  Tritsch, Laurent ^a,b   Boet, Sylvain ^c   Pottecher, Julien ^a   Joshi, Girish P ^d   Diemunsch, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b Fire and Rescue Department Bas Rhin   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway; Regurgitation; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATION CONTROL; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84893915219     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2013.11.006     Document Type: Article

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