Use of the McCoy laryngoscope or fingers to facilitate fibrescope-aided tracheal intubation

Anaesthesia

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 903-905

  Asai, T ^a   Matsumoto, S ^a   Shingu, K ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Equipment; fibreoptic bronchoscope, McCoy laryngoscope; Intubation, tracheal; difficult

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIGLOTTIS; FIBEROSCOPE; FINGER; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; TRACHEA;

AGED; EPIGLOTTIS; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; FINGERS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031711944     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1998.00532.x     Document Type: Article

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