Use of the laryngeal mask airway in rabbits: Placement and efficacy

Lab Animal

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 29-34

  Kazakos, George M ^a   Anagnostou, Tilemahos ^a   Savvas, Ioannis ^a   Raptopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Psalla, Dimitra ^a   Kazakou, Irene M ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HEART RATE; LARYNGEAL MASK; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT;

ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HALOTHANE; HEART RATE; ISOFLURANE; LARYNGEAL MASKS; RABBITS;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 33947589639     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0407-29     Document Type: Article

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