Use of a flexible intubating scope in combination with a channeled video laryngoscope for managing a difficult airway in the emergency department

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 315-319

  Sowers, Nicholas ^a   Kovacs, George ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

airway management; flexible intubating scope; intubation; video laryngoscope

Indexed keywords

AGED; AIRWAY; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLEXIBLE INTUBATING SCOPE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLOTTIS; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MONITOR; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE; DEVICES; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; LARYNGOSCOPE; PROCEDURES;

AGED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; MALE;

EID: 84957802537     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2015.10.010     Document Type: Article

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