Airway management after upper cervical spine injury: What have we learned?

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 733-744

  Crosby, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT DISLOCATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINE INSTABILITY; SURVIVAL; TRACTION THERAPY;

EID: 0036700559     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03017455     Document Type: Article

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