Minimum and optimum light output of Macintosh size 3 laryngoscopy blades: A manikin study

Anaesthesia

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 163-168

  Scholz, Anette ^a   Farnum, N ^a   Wilkes, A R ^b   Hampson, M A ^b   Hall, J E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVICE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ILLUMINATION; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; LIGHT INTENSITY; STANDARD;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LIGHTING; MALE; MANIKINS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33846253093     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04912.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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