Out-of-Hospital Rescue Oxygenation and Tracheal Intubation with the Intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway in a Morbidly Obese Patient [4]

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 140-141

  Combes, Xavier ^a   Leroux, Bertrand ^a   Jabre, Patricia ^a   Margenet, Alain ^a   Dhonneur, Gilles ^a  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTUBATING LARYNGEAL MASK AIRWAY; LARYNGEAL MASK; LETTER; MORBID OBESITY; OUT OF HOSPITAL RESCUE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0346098324     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2003.07.002     Document Type: Letter

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