Pre-hospital critical care anaesthesiologists and traumatic brain injury-guideline adherence
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Background Guidelines recommend that brain trauma patients with a Glasgow Coma Scale score <9 should have an airway established. Also, SpO2 >90%, systolic blood pressure >90 mmHg and end-tidal CO2 between 4.5 and 5.3 kPa is advised [1]. The objectives were to investigate guideline adherence, reasons for non-adherence and the incidences of complications related to pre-hospital advanced airway management in traumatic brain injury patients.
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 22 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014