Gum Elastic Bougie-guided Insertion of the ProSeal™ Laryngeal Mask Airway Is Superior to the Digital and Introducer Tool Techniques

Anesthesiology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-29

  Brimacombe, Joseph ^a,c   Keller, Christian ^b   Judd, Dana Vosoba ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c CAIRNS BASE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOUGIE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHONIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGEAL MASK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SORE THROAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANOXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; OCCULT BLOOD; TIDAL VOLUME; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0346102502     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200401000-00008     Document Type: Article

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