The StyletScope™ is a better intubation tool than a conventional stylet during simulated cervical spine immobilization

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 105-110

  Kihara, Shinichi ^a   Yaguchi, Yuichi ^a   Taguchi, Noriko ^a   Brimacombe, Joseph R ^b   Watanabe, Seiji ^a  

^a Mito Saiseikai General Hospital   (Japan)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY CONDUCTANCE; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EPIGLOTTIS; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; IMMOBILIZATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH LESION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SORE THROAT; TOOTH INJURY; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBER OPTICS; HEMODYNAMICS; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNX; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNX; SPINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 14944384008     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03018590     Document Type: Article

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