Initial anatomic investigations of the I-gel airway: A novel supraglottic airway without inflatable cuff

Anaesthesia

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1022-1026

  Levitan, Richard M ^a   Kinkle, W C ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMER;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CADAVER; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; ENDOSCOPY; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LARYNGEAL MASK; NECK DISSECTION; SCORING SYSTEM;

EPIGLOTTIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; MALE; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; POLYETHYLENES; POLYSTYRENES;

EID: 25844502487     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04258.x     Document Type: Article

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