A novel role for otolaryngologists in the multidisciplinary difficult airway response team

Laryngoscope

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 640-644

  Hillel, Alexander T ^a   Pandian, Vinciya ^a   Mark, Lynette J ^a   Clark, James ^a   Miller, Christina R ^a   Haut, Elliott R ^a   Cover, Renee ^a   Berkow, Lauren C ^a   Agrawal, Yuri ^a   Bhatti, Nasir ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cricothyrotomy; Difficult airway; Multidisciplinary airway team; Oropharyngeal edema; Patient outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY CONSTRICTION; AMBULATORY CARE; ANESTHESIST; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNGOSCOPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; OROPHARYNGEAL ANGIOEDEMA; OTOLARYNGOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPRAGLOTTIC ANGIOEDEMA; TRACHEOTOMY; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; PROCEDURES; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84923364370     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.24949     Document Type: Article

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