The management of the difficult pediatric airway

Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 490-495

  Isada, Tetsuro ^a   Miwa, Takaaki ^b   Hiroki, Koichi ^b   Fukuda, Satoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airway management; Congenital abnormality; Difficult pediatric airway

Indexed keywords

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; AIRWAY; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTHROGRYPOSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CROUZON SYNDROME; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MANDIBULOFACIAL DYSOSTOSIS; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PIERRE ROBIN SYNDROME; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRACHEA;

EID: 19944396812     PISSN: 00214892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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