Preoxygenation reduces desaturation events and improves intubation success

Air Medical Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 82-85

  Davis, Daniel P ^a,b   Lemieux, Justin ^a   Serra, John ^a   Koenig, William ^b,c   Aguilar, Steve A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Air Methods Corporation   (United States)

^c LONG BEACH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CAPNOMETER; INCIDENCE; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OXYGEN DESATURATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGENATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE OXIMETRY; RAPID SEQUENCE INTUBATION; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SELF REPORT; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PROCEDURES;

AIR AMBULANCES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONTROLLED BEFORE-AFTER STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; HYPOXIA; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84932649971     PISSN: 1067991X     EISSN: 15326497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amj.2014.12.007     Document Type: Article

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