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Wake Forest University
"A-OK": Chest Radiograph During Primary Survey Facilitates Faster, More Accurate Endotracheal Tube Position in Injured Children
Abstract
dc:description.abstractPurpose: The Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) algorithm typically postpones radiographic confirmation of endotracheal tube (ETT) placement until the end of the secondary survey. Correct ETT depth is critical in pediatric trauma. We hypothesized that bedside confirmatory techniques are inaccurate and that early chest x-ray (CXR) would overcome such inaccuracies, allowing for faster intervention of malpositioned ETTs.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher
- Wake Forest University
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Doud, Andrea Nicole
Subjects
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- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/57257
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:wakespace.lib.wfu.edu:10339/57257