The cuffed oropharyngeal airway vs. the laryngeal mask airway: A randomised cross-over study of oropharyngeal leak pressure and fibreoptic view in paralysed patients

Anaesthesia

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 683-685

  Brimacombe, J ^a   Keller, C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Equipment; laryngeal mask airway, cuffed oropharyngeal airway; Intubation; technique; Larynx; glottis, fibreoptic laryngoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; CUFF; EPIGLOTTIS; FEMALE; FIBEROSCOPE; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; MALE; OROPHARYNX; PHARYNX; PRESSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EPIGLOTTIS; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNX; PARALYSIS; PRESSURE;

EID: 0032838388     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1999.00853.x     Document Type: Article

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