Comparison of the Berman Intubating Airway and the Williams Airway Intubator for fibreoptic orotracheal intubation in anaesthetised patients

Anaesthesia

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 678-684

  Greenland, K B ^a   Ha, I D ^a   Irwin, M G ^b  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; OXYGEN; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SEVOFLURANE;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRONCHOSCOPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; BRONCHOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33745016924     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04704.x     Document Type: Article

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