Mandibular Advancement Improves the Laryngeal View during Direct Laryngoscopy Performed by Inexperienced Physicians

Anesthesiology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 598-601

  Tamura, Miki ^b   Ishikawa, Teruhiko ^a   Kato, Rie ^b   Isono, Shiroh ^b   Nishino, Takashi ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECT LARYNGOSCOPY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; MALE; MANDIBLE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE;

EID: 1442357287     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200403000-00020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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