Airway management practices at German university and university-affiliated teaching hospitals - Equipment, techniques and training: Results of a nationwide survey

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 298-305

  Goldmann, K ^a   Braun, U ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airway management; Anaesthesia; Equipment; Guidelines

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; AIRWAY DYNAMICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EQUIPMENT; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; LARYNGOSCOPE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRAINING; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; FIBER OPTICS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGOSCOPY;

EID: 33645003937     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2006.00853.x     Document Type: Article

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