The Royal North Shore Hospital Emergency Department airway registry: Closing the audit loop

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 27-33

  Fogg, Toby ^a,b,c   Alkhouri, Hatem ^d   Vassiliadis, John ^a,c  

^a ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NSW Med Retrieval Rescue Service   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d Agency for Clinical Innovation   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airway management; Complications; Emergency medicine; Intubation; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BRADYCARDIA; DEVICE FAILURE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE STYLET; ESOPHAGEAL BOUGIE; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXYGEN DESATURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE; VOMITING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CARE BUNDLE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT CARE BUNDLES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957433210     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.12496     Document Type: Article

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