Balloon versus conventional laryngoscopy: A comparison of laryngoscopic findings and intubation difficulty

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1513-1519

  Mentzelopoulos, Spyros D ^a,b   Romana, Constantina N ^a   Corolanoglou, Despina S ^a   Tzoufi, Maria J ^a   Karamichali, Evangelia A ^a  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033693284     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200012000-00040     Document Type: Article

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