Identifying Scholarly Resources
The first database I decided to explore was google scholar, http://scholar?q=+in+infant+after+intubation&btnG=&h1=en&as_sdt=0%2c11. I use google search engine all the time so I felt like google scholar would be an easy transition into looking for scholarly resources. Google scholar was very user friendly. It pulled up several relevant articles. It was easy to put in the time frame you want the article to be published in. The main problem I have seen with google scholar is that when trying to read the full text article, it often required payment.
The second database I decided to explore was PubMed, http://www.ncbi.nlm.gov/pubmed/20334332 . I found this data to also be user friendly. Like google scholar you can go to advance search and put in the time frame of the publication. You could also check whether you wanted to only search full text and peer reviewed articles. The problem I had with PubMed is finding relevant articles in the time frame I needed them to be in. When searching with databases I had to use correct word phrases to get relevant articles.
My topic is stridor in infants after intubation. We intubate infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) all the time. It is usually an emergency and we intubate as quick as possible, sometimes causing injury. The topic is an interest to me not only because I am a NICU nurse, but because I am a parent of an infant born at 27 weeks gestation, who was intubated at delivery. He had a difficult intubation where the Nurse Practitioner tried to intubate him four times until she got the tube in. I was looking on in horror. Caleb, my son develop stridor and was able to be extubated for one month. My son, now 2 years, has to have all liquids thickened. The article I found to support my topic is Predictors of difficult intubation in ICU: Are children and adults alike? It is difficult to predict a difficult intubation in a critically ill child because of the tiny structures and underdeveloped systems (De Jong, Baranwal, & Jaberr, 2014). However you can see the evidence of a difficult intubation through signs of upper airway obstruction, which is stridor and severe retractions (De Jong et al., 2014). The article I found from PubMed was Congenital Stridor with feeding difficulty as a presenting symptom of Dok7 myasthenic syndrome (Jephson et al., 2010). The article was very thought-provoking. I had never heard of this syndrome, and it lead me to consider whether I should perform further research on it for my son or others in the NICU having difficulty with stridor, extubation and swallowing.

References
De Jong, A., Baranwal, A. K., & Jaberr, S. (2014). Predictors of difficult intubation in ICU: are children and adults alike? Retrieved from link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s0013-014-3429-4/fulltext.html
Jephson, C. G., Mills, N. A., Pitt, M. S., Beeson, D., Aloysius, A., Muntoni, F., ... Bailey, C. M. (2010). Congenital Stridor with feeding difficulty as a presenting symptom of Dok7 myasthenic syndrome. Retrieved from www.ijorlonline.com/article/50165-58761(10)00253-3