The predictive value of the height ratio and thyromental distance: Four predictive tests for difficult laryngoscopy

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1542-1545

  Krobbuaban, Banjong ^a   Diregpoke, Siriwan ^a   Kumkeaw, Sujarit ^a   Tanomsat, Malin ^a  

^a Chaiyapoom Hospital   (Thailand)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK; OROPHARYNX; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

EID: 27444444367     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000181000.43971.1E     Document Type: Article

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