Evaluation of the airway of the SimMan™ full-scale patient simulator

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1339-1345

  Hesselfeldt, R ^a   Kristensen, Michael S ^a   Rasmussen, L S ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Airway education; Airway management; Airway simulation; Difficult airway

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LARYNGEAL MASK; MALE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; NECK; NURSE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATOR; SPINE MOBILITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNX; MANIKINS; NECK; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TOOTH;

EID: 25444489609     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2005.00856.x     Document Type: Article

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