Stylet Bend Angles and Tracheal Tube Passage Using a Straight-to-cuff Shape

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1255-1258

  Levitan, Richard M ^a   Pisaturo, James T ^a   Kinkle, William C ^a   Butler, Kenneth ^a   Everett, Worth W ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

intubation; laryngoscopy; stylet; tracheal tube

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CADAVER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33751241398     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.06.058     Document Type: Article

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