Prehospital airway management using the laryngeal tube. An emergency department point of view

Anaesthesist

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 589-596

  Bernhard, M ^a   Beres, W ^b   Timmermann, A ^c   Stepan, R ^d   Greim, C A ^e   Kaisers, U X ^f   Gries, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Chirurgische Abteilung   (Germany)

^c DRK KLINIKEN BERLIN WESTEND   (Germany)

^d Department of Public Health Fulda County ^*  (Germany)

^e KLINIKUM FULDA   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adverse effect; Emergency medical service; Endotracheal intubation; Professional competence; Respiration, artificial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL TUBE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PHARYNX; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESUSCITATION; SWELLING; TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX; TONGUE; TONGUE SWELLING; TRACHEOTOMY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FALLING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ARREST; MIDDLE AGED; MOTORCYCLE; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PROCEDURES; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTORCYCLES; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904857590     PISSN: 00032417     EISSN: 1432055X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00101-014-2348-1     Document Type: Article

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