The laryngeal mask airway reliably provides rescue ventilation in cases of unanticipated difficult tracheal intubation along with difficult mask ventilation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 661-665

  Parmet, Jonathan L ^a,c   Colonna Romano, Pietro ^a   Horrow, Jan C ^a   Miller, Francis ^a   Gonzales, Jerry ^a   Rosenberg, Henry ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ALLEGHENY UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031684410     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/00000539-199809000-00032     Document Type: Article

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