Apneic oxygenation was associated with decreased desaturation rates during rapid sequence intubation by an australian helicopter emergency medicine service

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 371-376

  Wimalasena, Yashvi ^a,b   Burns, Brian ^a,c   Reid, Cliff ^a,c   Ware, Sandra ^a   Habig, Karel ^a  

^a Greater Sydney Area Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Ambulance Service New South Wales Rescue Helicopter Base Bankstown Airport   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; APNEIC OXYGENATION; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASAL CANNULA; OXYGEN DESATURATION; OXYGENATION; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID SEQUENCE INTUBATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; APNEA; BLOOD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; OXYGEN THERAPY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

OXYGEN;

AIR AMBULANCES; APNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; OXYGEN; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84930383214     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2014.11.014     Document Type: Article

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