Comparison of the Flexiblade levering laryngoscope with the English Macintosh laryngoscope in patients with a poor laryngoscopic view

Anaesthesia

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 400-405

  Beilin, B ^a   Yardeni, I Z ^a   Smolyarenko, V ^a   Zeidel, A ^a   Ram, E ^a   Mayburd, E ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL PATIENT; TIME; AGED; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 15944369303     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2004.04089.x     Document Type: Article

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