Updating our approach to the difficult and failed airway: time to “stop and think”;Mise à jour de notre démarche en cas de voies aériennes difficiles et échec d’intubation: il est temps de « s’arrêter et de réfléchir »

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 373-381

  Brindley, Peter G ^a   Beed, Martin ^b   Duggan, Laura V ^c   Hung, Orlando ^d   Murphy, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION; MEDICAL ERROR; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SOCIAL ASPECT; ADULT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; CREW RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, HEALTHCARE; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS;

EID: 84961059585     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: 14968975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12630-016-0594-1     Document Type: Editorial

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