Comparison of the Levitan FPS Scope™ and the single-use bougie for simulated difficult intubation in anaesthetised patients

Anaesthesia

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 509-515

  Greenland, K B ^a,b   Liu, G ^a   Tan, H ^a   Edwards, M ^a   Irwin, M G ^c  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; PROPOFOL; VECURONIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BOUGIE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIGLOTTIS; FEMALE; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LARYNGOSCOPE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249058740     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.05003.x     Document Type: Article

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