Predicting difficult intubation in apparently normal patients: A meta-analysis of bedside screening test performance

Anesthesiology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 429-437

  Shiga, Toshiya ^a   Wajima, Zen'ichiro ^a   Inoue, Tetsuo ^a   Sakamoto, Atsuhiro ^b  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL CHIBA HOKUSOH HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNX CARTILAGE; MANDIBLE; META ANALYSIS; MORBID OBESITY; MOUTH; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL MODEL; STERNUM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WILSON RISK SCORE;

EID: 23044480473     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200508000-00027     Document Type: Review

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