The unanticipated difficult airway

Anesthesiology Clinics of North America

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 443-469

  Reed, A P ^a  

^a Box 1010   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CAPNOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; LUNG EDEMA; MORBIDITY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW;

EID: 0029821438     PISSN: 08898537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0889-8537(05)70285-6     Document Type: Article

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