Management of the difficult airway: Alternative airway techniques and adjuncts

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 259-289

  Butler, Kenneth H ^a   Clyne, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; BAROTRAUMA; BLEEDING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EPIGLOTTIS; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; EXTUBATION; FIBER OPTICS; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; INTUBATION; JET VENTILATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSTRACHEAL JET VENTILATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; TRACHEA; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0038013000     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0733-8627(03)00007-5     Document Type: Review

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