Movement of the upper cervical spine during laryngoscopy: A comparison of the Bonfils intubation fibrescope and the Macintosh laryngoscope

Anaesthesia

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 668-672

  Rudolph, C ^a   Scheider, J P ^a   Wallenborn, J ^a   Schaffranietz, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETOMIDATE; FENTANYL; ISOFLURANE; OXYGEN; ROCURONIUM;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MALE; REFERENCE VALUE; SPINE MOBILITY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FIBER OPTICS; FLUOROSCOPY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 21344439841     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04224.x     Document Type: Article

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