Retrograde tracheal intubation in a patient with a halo traction device [70]

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1628-1629

  Bhardwaj, Neerja ^a   Yaddanapudi, Sandhya ^a   Makkar, Surinder ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CANNULATION; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; DEVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TRACTION THERAPY; URETER STENT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; TRACTION;

EID: 33845683800     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000247176.06191.45     Document Type: Letter

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