Large goitre causing difficult intubation and failure to intubate using the intubating laryngeal mask airway: Lessons for next time

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 979-981

  Wakeling, H G ^a,b   Ody, A ^a   Ball, A ^a  

^a DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Equipment, masks anaesthesia; Intubation trachea, complications; Intubation tracheal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EPIGLOTTIS; FEMALE; FIBEROSCOPE; GOITER; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0031775373     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/81.6.979     Document Type: Article

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