The process of prehospital airway management: Challenges and solutions during paramedic endotracheal intubation

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1372-1378

  Prekker, Matthew E ^a,b   Kwok, Heemun ^a   Shin, Jenny ^c   Carlbom, David ^a,b   Grabinsky, Andreas ^a   Rea, Thomas D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Emergency Medical Services Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway management; intubation; paramedics; prehospital emergency care; registries

Indexed keywords

NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BODY FLUID; BOUGIE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; JET VENTILATION; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANUAL EMERGENCY VENTILATOR; OBESITY; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SPINE INJURY; SUCTION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRACHEOTOMY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84901500038     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000213     Document Type: Article

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