The Combitube® should be redesigned for anaesthetic use

Anaesthesia

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 275-

  Urtubia, R M ^a,b   Medina, J ^a,b  

^a Mutual de Seguridad Hospital   (Chile)

^b HOSPITAL PADRE HURTADO   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY CONDUCTANCE; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BALLOON CATHETER; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIXATION FAILURE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LARYNGEAL MASK; LETTER; MATERIAL STATE; PHARYNX DISEASE; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; INSTRUMENTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; NOTE;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LAPAROSCOPY;

EID: 0035089502     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2001.01918-5.x     Document Type: Letter

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