Endotracheal intubation with a gum-elastic bougie in unanticipated difficult direct laryngoscopy: Comparison of a blind technique versus indirect laryngoscopy with a laryngeal mirror

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1090-1093

  Weisenberg, Marian ^a   Warters, R David ^a   Medalion, Benjamin ^a   Szmuk, Peter ^a   Roth, Yehuda ^a   Ezri, Tiberiu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0036785767     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/00000539-200210000-00056     Document Type: Article

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