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How to safely extubate a patient in the emergency department: a user's guide to critical care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2015

Sara H. Gray ,
John A. Ross  and
Robert S. Green
Sara H. Gray*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and Department of Emergency Medicine, and the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, St. Michael's Hospital and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, ON
John A. Ross
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, and AIME Airway Course
Robert S. Green
Affiliation:
Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesia, and Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
*
30 Bond Street, Room 4-036 Queen, Toronto, ON M5B 1W8; grays@smh.ca.

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Keywords

emergency departmentextubationpatient safety
Type
Knowledge to Practice • Des connaissances à la pratique
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 15 , Issue 5 , September 2013 , pp. 303 - 306
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2013

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