Clinical review: Management of difficult airways

Critical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Langeron, Olivier ^a   Amour, Julien ^a   Vivien, Benoît ^a   Aubrun, Frédéric ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FATALITY; FIBER OPTICS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; JET VENTILATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; OXYGENATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRACHEOTOMY; ALGORITHM; CRITICAL ILLNESS; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; PROGNOSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 34447634713     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc5112     Document Type: Review

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