Low-skill fibreoptic intubation: Use of the Aintree Catheter with the classic LMA

Anaesthesia

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 915-920

  Higgs, Andrew G ^a   Clark, E ^a   Premraj, K ^a  

^a WARRINGTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY CONDUCTANCE; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBEROSCOPE; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 23944464466     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04226.x     Document Type: Article

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