Airway management in a 980-lb patient: use of the Aintree intubation catheter

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 367-369

  Doyle, D John ^a   Zura, Andrew ^a   Ramachandran, Mangalakaraipudur ^a   Lin, Jia ^a   Cywinski, Jacek B ^a   Parker, Brian ^a   Marks, Theodore ^a   Feldman, Marc ^a   Lorenz, Robert R ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aintree intubation catheter; Difficult intubation; LMA ProSeal; Morbid obesity

Indexed keywords

SEDATIVE AGENT; SEVOFLURANE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EPISTAXIS; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; INTUBATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; MALE; OBESITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TRACHEOTOMY;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; EPISTAXIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION;

EID: 34548509697     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2006.08.015     Document Type: Article

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