Head position for opening the upper airway

Anaesthesia

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 227-230

  Paal, Peter ^a   Goedecke, A V ^a   Brugger, H ^b   Niederklapfer, T ^a   Lindner, K H ^a   Wenzel, V ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b ICAR MEDCOM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RANDOMIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUPINE POSITION; VOLUNTEER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BODY CONSTITUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HEAD MOVEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MASK; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BODY CONSTITUTION; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MASKS; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 34047124164     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.04955.x     Document Type: Article

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