Prospective observational study of emergency airway management in the critical care environment of a tertiary hospital in Melbourne

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 577-586

  Dyett, John F ^a   Moser, M S ^b   Tobin, A E ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b BOX HILL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airway management; Apnoeic oxygenation; Intubation; Nasal cannulae

Indexed keywords

ROCURONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAPNOMETRY; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANUAL EMERGENCY VENTILATOR; MEDICAL STAFF; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXYGENATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK REDUCTION; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; UNITED STATES; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE; WAVEFORM CAPNOGRAPHY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; AUSTRALIA; CRITICAL CARE; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84941138755     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: 14480271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x1504300505     Document Type: Article

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