Use of WuScope for exchange of endotracheal tube in a patient with difficult airway

Laryngoscope

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1082-1084

  Sprung, Juraj ^a   Wright, Laurie C ^b   Dilger, John ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Difficult tracheal intubation; Endotracheal tube exchange; WuScope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMAN; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL SEPTUM; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 0037646073     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200306000-00032     Document Type: Article

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