Use of the Pentax-AWS in a patient with Cormack 3a difficult airway

Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 341-344

  Suzuki, Akihiro ^a   Hayashi, Dai ^a   Toyama, Hiroki ^a   Minami, Sayuri ^a   Iwasaki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airway scope (Pentax AWS); Awake intubation; Difficult airway

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; OXYGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPE; MALE; MOUTH CAVITY; OROPHARYNX; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SALIVATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEDATION; SUCTION; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; COLOSTOMY; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; MALE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33947431659     PISSN: 00214892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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