Awake intubation of the difficult airway with the intubating laryngeal mask airway

Anaesthesia

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 645-649

  Shung, J ^a   Avidan, M S ^a   Ing, R ^a   Klein, D G ^a   Pott, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Equipment; intubating laryngeal mask

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HEMODYNAMICS; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; OXYGEN SATURATION; SEDATION; SORE THROAT; TIME; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0031825486     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1998.429-az0533.x     Document Type: Article

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