Use of Macintosh laryngoscope No. 2 for adult patients with a short thyromental distance [11]

Anesthesiology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 403-

  Takenaka, Ichiro ^a   Aoyama, Kazuyoshi ^b  

^a STEEL MEMORIAL YAWATA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT;

ADULT; AIRWAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIGLOTTIS; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; LETTER; MANDIBLE; MAXILLA; MICROGNATHIA; MOUTH CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHIN; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; THYROID GLAND;

ADULT; CHIN; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 33846566243     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200702000-00038     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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3. Murashima K, Fukutome T: Effect of jaw-thrust manoeuvre on the laryngeal inlet. Anaesthesia 1998; 53:203-4