Use of the glidescope ranger video laryngoscope for emergency intubation in the prehospital setting: A randomized control trial

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2016, Pages e470-e476

  Trimmel, Helmut ^a,b   Kreutziger, Janett ^c   Fitzka, Robert ^a,b   Szüts, Stephan ^a,b   Derdak, Christoph ^a,b   Koch, Elisabeth ^b,d   Erwied, Boris ^e   Voelckel, Wolfgang G ^b,f,g,h  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b ÖAMTC Austrian Air Rescue   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d Mistelbach General Hospital   (Austria)

^e DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Norway)

^f AUVA Trauma Center   (Austria)

^g PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^h UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

airway management; direct laryngoscopy; emergency care; prehospital endotracheal intubation; randomized control trial; video laryngoscopy

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AGE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORWAY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPY; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEVICES; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; VIDEORECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961391637     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001669     Document Type: Article

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