"A-OK": Chest Radiograph During Primary Survey Facilitates Faster, More Accurate Endotracheal Tube Position in Injured Children
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- title
- "A-OK": Chest Radiograph During Primary Survey Facilitates Faster, More Accurate Endotracheal Tube Position in Injured Children
- author
- Doud, Andrea Nicole
- abstract
- Purpose: 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.
- subject
- Advanced Trauma Life Support
- Chest Radiograph
- Endotracheal Tube
- Injured Children
- Pediatric Trauma
- contributor
- Petty, John K (committee chair)
- McCrory, Michael (committee member)
- Stitzel, Joel D (committee member)
- Ip, Eddie (committee member)
- date
- 2015-08-25T08:35:30Z (accessioned)
- 2015-08-25T08:35:30Z (available)
- 2015 (issued)
- degree
- Clinical and Population Translational Sciences (discipline)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/57257 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- type
- Thesis