Emergency cricothyrotomy: Toward a safer and more reliable rescue method in "cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate" situation

Anesthesiology

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 995-996

  Asai, Takashi ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADAVER; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FACE MASK; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTUBATION; OXYGENATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TRACHEOSTOMY; TRACHEOTOMY; ULTRASOUND; CRICOID; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; LARYNX CARTILAGE; PATIENT SAFETY; STANDARDS; SURGERY;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; CRICOID CARTILAGE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INTUBATION; PATIENT SAFETY; THYROID CARTILAGE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84945251511     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000000849     Document Type: Editorial

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