A comparison of the intubating laryngeal mask airway and the Bonfils intubation fibrescope in patients with predicted difficult airways

Anaesthesia

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 668-674

  Bein, B ^a   Worthmann, F ^a   Scholz, J ^a   Brinkmann, F ^a   Tonner, P H ^a   Steinfath, M ^a   Dorges V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bronchoscopes; Intubation, intratracheal; Laryngeal mask airway

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SUFENTANIL;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; FIBEROSCOPE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; LUNG VENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SORE THROAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HOARSENESS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3242891660     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2004.03778.x     Document Type: Article

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