Lost airway during anesthesia induction: Alternatives for management

Laryngoscope

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1476-1482

  Sofferman, Robert A ^a   Johnson, David L ^a   Spencer, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; LUNG VENTILATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPINE POSITION; TRACHEOTOMY;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGOSCOPES; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TRACHEA;

EID: 0030771075     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199711000-00010     Document Type: Article

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