4,871 Emergency airway encounters by air medical providers: A report of the Air Transport Emergency Airway Management (NEAR VI: "A-TEAM") project

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 188-193

  Brown III, Calvin A ^a   Cox, Kelly ^b   Hurwitz, Shelley ^a   Walls, Ron M ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Air transport; Emergency airway management; Emergency medicine; Intubation

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; ETOMIDATE; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; OXYGEN; ROCURONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM; VECURONIUM;

ADULT; ADULT DISEASE; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; AIRPLANE CREW; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CAPNOMETRY; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXTRAGLOTTIC DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN SATURATION; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY THERAPEUTIC DEVICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRACHEOTOMY; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; PROCEDURES; RESUSCITATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR AMBULANCES; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896957537     PISSN: 1936900X     EISSN: 19369018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2013.11.18549     Document Type: Article

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