Predicting difficult intubation - Worthwhile exercise or pointless ritual?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 105-109

  Yentis, S M ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHESIST; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036173273     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0003-2409.2001.02515.x     Document Type: Editorial

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