Successful airtraq use in an air medical transport system

Air Medical Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 331-334

  Selde, William ^a,b   English, Kyle ^a   Heffelfinger, Matthew ^c   Eichel, Jan ^c   Ekblad, Glenn ^a,c  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Wyoming Medical Center   (United States)

^c West Michigan Air Care   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; DIRECT LARYNGOSCOPY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; RIGID LARYNGOSCOPE; CLINICAL AUDIT; DEVICES; EVALUATION STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS;

AIR AMBULANCES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MEDICAL AUDIT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84913526169     PISSN: 1067991X     EISSN: 15326497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amj.2014.07.003     Document Type: Article

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