Efficiency of a new fiberoptic stylet scope in tracheal intubation

Anesthesiology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1628-1632

  Kitamura, Takayuki ^b   Yamada, Yoshitsugu ^a   Du, Hong Lin ^b   Hanaoka, Kazuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Airway management; Fiber optics

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBER OPTICS; GENERAL SURGERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LIGHT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SORE THROAT;

EID: 0032712611     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199912000-00013     Document Type: Article

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