Emergency tracheal intubation using a gum elastic bougie through a laryngeal mask airway [9]

Anaesthesia

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 626-627

  Murdoch, J A C ^a  

^a KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BOUGIE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LETTER; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NECK INJURY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGOSCOPY;

EID: 19944383470     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04248.x     Document Type: Letter

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