Predicting trouble in airway management

Anesthesiology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 871-872

  Yentis, Steve M ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; LUNG CLEARANCE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OXYGENATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ANESTHESIA; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33750428209     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200611000-00003     Document Type: Editorial

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