Emergency surgical airway management in Denmark: A cohort study of 452 461 patients registered in the Danish Anaesthesia Database

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 117, Issue , 2016, Pages i75-i82

  Rosenstock, C V ^a   Norskov A K ^a,b   Wetterslev, J ^b   Lundstrom L H ^a  

^a HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

airway management; complications; general anaesthesia; intubation; otorhinolaryngologic surgical procedures; tracheostomy

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN DAMAGE; BREAST SURGERY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DENMARK; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMPHYSEMA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ARREST; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX TUMOR; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT FAILURE; UROLOGIC SURGERY; EMERGENCY; FACTUAL DATABASE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; TRACHEOSTOMY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DENMARK; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 85010297350     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aew190     Document Type: Article

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