A bronchoscopic, computer-assisted examination of the changes in dimension of the infant tracheal lumen with changes in head position: Implications for emergency airway management

Anesthesiology

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1183-1187

  Wheeler, Melissa ^a,b   Roth, Andrew G ^a,b   Dunham, Michael E ^a,b   Rae, Bronwyn ^a,b   Cot́e, Charles J ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Anesthesiology ^*

Author keywords

Airway obstruction; Computer graphics; Infant resuscitation; Infant ventilation; Medical imaging

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; TRACHEA;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HALOTHANE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POSTURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESUSCITATION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TRACHEA; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0031968301     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199805000-00007     Document Type: Article

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