Incidence and predictors of difficult and impossible mask ventilation

Anesthesiology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 885-891

  Kheterpal, Sachin ^a   Han, Richard ^b   Tremper, Kevin K ^b   Shanks, Amy ^b   Tait, Alan R ^b   O'Reilly, Michael ^b   Ludwig, Thomas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITALS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SNORING; TRACHEOTOMY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIA; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33750459383     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200611000-00007     Document Type: Article

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