The LMA CTrach™ in airway resuscitation: Six case reports

Anaesthesia

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 975-977

  Goldman, A J ^a   Rosenblatt, W H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BOUGIE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33748614613     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04787.x     Document Type: Article

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