Modified retrograde intubation in a patient with difficult airway

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 490-492

  Morais, Rex J ^a   Kotsev, Strahil N ^a   Hana, Sabri J ^a  

^a DUBAI HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Difficult airway; Difficult intubation; Retrograde tracheal intubation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; BODY POSTURE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH DISEASE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; NOSE DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT FISTULA; SPINE FRACTURE;

ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL JOINT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MANDIBULAR FRACTURES; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NOSE DISEASES; ORAL FISTULA; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RESPIRATORY TRACT FISTULA; SPINAL FRACTURES; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DYSFUNCTION SYNDROME;

EID: 0034189144     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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