An update on out-of-hospital airway management practices in the United States

Resuscitation

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 885-892

  Diggs, Leigh Ann ^a,b   De Leo, Gianluca ^a,b  

^a Wie)   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency Medical Services; Intubation (intratracheal); Paramedics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; ESOPHAGUS OBTURATOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGEAL TUBE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANUAL EMERGENCY VENTILATOR; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PATIENT CARE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; STATISTICS; TRACHEOTOMY; UNITED STATES; VOMITING; HEART ARREST; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902260591     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.02.032     Document Type: Article

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