Comparison of two techniques for retrograde tracheal intubation in human fresh cadavers

Anesthesiology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 48-51

  Lenfant, François ^a   Benkhadra, Mehdi ^a   Trouilloud, Pierre ^a   Freysz, Marc ^b  

^a HÔPITAL DU BOCAGE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CADAVER; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEA; BIOASSAY; CATHETERIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY;

CATHETERIZATION; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; TRACHEA;

EID: 33644850936     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200601000-00009     Document Type: Article

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