Combitube®: A study for proper use

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 958-962

  Urtubia, Ricardo M ^a   Aguila, Carmen M ^b   Cumsille, Miguel A ^b  

^a Mutual de Seguridad Hospital   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLENE BLUE;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY CONDUCTANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY HEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEA; ADOLESCENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0033622116     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200004000-00034     Document Type: Article

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