Airway management during spaceflight: A comparison of four airway devices in simulated microgravity

Anesthesiology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1237-1241

  Keller, Christian ^a   Brimacombe, Joseph ^b,e   Giampalmo, Marzia ^c   Kleinsasser, Axel ^a   Loeckinger, Alex ^a   Giampalmo, Giuseppe ^d   Pühringer, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

^e CAIRNS BASE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cuffed oropharyngeal airway; Laryngeal mask airway; Space medicine; Tracheal intubation

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CUFF; DEVICE; DIVER; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; IMMERSION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPE; MICROGRAVITY; OROPHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0034016614     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200005000-00010     Document Type: Article

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