Short thyromental distance: A predictor of difficult intubation or an indicator for small blade selection?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1131-1136

  Tripathi, Mukesh ^a   Pandey, Mamta ^b  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADE; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYOID BONE; JAW; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 33744959792     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200606000-00006     Document Type: Article

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