Evaluation of the airway and preparation for difficulty

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 559-579

  Pearce, Adrian ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Difficult airway; Difficult intubation; Prediction of difficult intubation; ROC curve; Sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE; CITRATE SODIUM; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; OMEPRAZOLE; RANITIDINE; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ACCURACY; ACROMEGALY; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FACE MASK; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GENERAL SURGERY; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; OBESITY; OXYGENATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNATHIA; PROTECTION; RELIABILITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINE DISEASE; THYROID SURGERY; TONGUE DISEASE; TONSIL DISEASE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 29644439239     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2005.07.004     Document Type: Review

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