Difficult airway management in the neonate: A simple method of intubating through a laryngeal mask airway

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 460-462

  Ellis, Diane S ^a   Potluri, Prabhu K ^a   O'Flaherty, Jennifer E ^a   Baum, Victor C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway management; Difficult airway; Fibreoptic bronchoscope; Laryngeal mask airway; Neonates

Indexed keywords

CISATRACURIUM; OXYGEN; SEVOFLURANE;

AIRWAY; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL DISORDER; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNX EDEMA; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRONCHOSCOPY; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE;

EID: 0032812739     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.1999.00375.x     Document Type: Article

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