Emergency airway management in Australian and New Zealand emergency departments: A multicentre descriptive study of 3710 emergency intubations

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 499-508

  Alkhouri, Hatem ^a,b   Vassiliadis, John ^c,d   Murray, Matthew ^a   Mackenzie, John ^a   Tzannes, Alex ^e,f   McCarthy, Sally ^a,b   Fogg, Toby ^c,d,g  

^a Agency for Clinical Innovation   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f Greater Sydney Area Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Ambulance Service New South Wales Rescue Helicopter Base Bankstown Airport   (Australia)

^g Louisiana State University Medical Center   (Australia)

Author keywords

airway complications; airway management; airway registry; emergency department; rapid sequence induction

Indexed keywords

ETOMIDATE; KETAMINE; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DEVICE FAILURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEW ZEALAND; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN DESATURATION; OXYGENATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATION CONTROL; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VITAL SIGN; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85020222893     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.12815     Document Type: Article

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