Critical incidents: the respiratory system

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 4-9

  Miles, Edward T C ^a   Cook, Timothy M ^a  

^a ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airway failure; airway injury; airway obstruction; aspiration; can't intubate, can't oxygenate; lung protective ventilation; pneumothorax; respiratory complications

Indexed keywords

ACID ASPIRATION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRONCHOSPASM; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; LARYNX INJURY; LARYNX SPASM; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OROPHARYNGEAL INJURY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INJURY; REVIEW; TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX; TRACHEA INJURY;

EID: 85006822867     PISSN: 14720299     EISSN: 18787584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpaic.2016.10.005     Document Type: Review

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