Significant modification of traditional rapid sequence induction improves safety and effectiveness of pre-hospital trauma anaesthesia

Critical Care

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lyon, Richard M ^a   Perkins, Zane B ^a,c   Chatterjee, Debamoy ^a   Lockey, David J ^b   Russell, Malcolm Q ^a  

^a Redhill Aerodrome   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETOMIDATE; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; ROCURONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM; ANDROSTANE DERIVATIVE; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INJURY SCALE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID SEQUENCE INDUCTION; TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX DRAINAGE; ANESTHESIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANDROSTANOLS; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; ETOMIDATE; FEMALE; FENTANYL; HUMANS; INFANT; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; KETAMINE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; SUCCINYLCHOLINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926620036     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-015-0872-2     Document Type: Article

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