Evaluation of the airway

Current Anaesthesia and Critical Care

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-37

  Pearce, A C ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSIBILITY; SURGICAL PATIENT;

EID: 0031956554     PISSN: 09537112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-7112(98)80067-7     Document Type: Article

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