The CobraPLA - A response from the manufacturer [1]

Anaesthesia

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 817-818

  Quinn, B ^a  

^a Engineered Medical Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYVINYLCHLORIDE;

AIRWAY PRESSURE; ANESTHESIST; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ENDOSCOPY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LARYNGEAL MASK; LETTER; LITHOTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PACKAGING; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; TRACHEOSTOMY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 22944468766     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04303.x     Document Type: Letter

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