Does the suggested lightwand bent length fit every patient? The relation between bent length and patient's thyroid prominence-to-mandibular angle distance

Anesthesiology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1070-1076

  Chen, Tsai Hsin ^a,b   Tsai, Shen Kou ^a   Lin, Chen Jung ^a   Lu, Cheng Wei ^a   Tsai, Tsung Po ^b   Sun, Wei Zen ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THYROID PROMINENCE TO MANDIBULAR ANGLE DISTANCE;

ADULT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSILLUMINATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037408513     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200305000-00008     Document Type: Article

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