The complexity of tracheal intubation using rigid fiberoptic laryngoscopy (WuScope)

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 236-239

  Smith, Charles E ^a   Sidhu, Tejbir S ^a   Lever, Jonathan ^a   Pinchak, Anna B ^a  

^a METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0033050526     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199907000-00043     Document Type: Article

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