Awake insertion of the fibreoptic intubating LMA CTrach™ in three morbidly obese patients with potentially difficult airways

Anaesthesia

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 948-951

  Wender, Regina ^a   Goldman, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; OXYGEN; SEVOFLURANE; VECURONIUM;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; MORBID OBESITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; VOCAL CORD; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; AWARENESS; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID;

EID: 34547893818     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.05127.x     Document Type: Article

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