Comparison of the Airway Scope®, gum elastic bougie and fibreoptic bronchoscope in simulated difficult tracheal intubation: A manikin study

Anaesthesia

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 936-939

  Koyama, Y ^a   Inagawa, Gaku ^a   Miyashita, T ^a   Kikuchi, T ^a   Miura, N ^a   Miki, T ^a   Kurihara, R ^a   Kamiya, Y ^a   Goto, T ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BOUGIE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGOSCOPY; SIMULATION;

BRONCHOSCOPES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; MANIKINS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547891495     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.05152.x     Document Type: Article

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