Considerations for Airway Management for Cervical Spine Surgery in Adults

Anesthesiology Clinics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 511-533

  Crosby, Edward T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

AGING; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTHROPATHY; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CHIARI FROMMEL SYNDROME; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KLIPPEL FEIL SYNDROME; LARYNGOSCOPY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT CARE; RADICULOPATHY; RESPIRATORY CARE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE CANCER; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE MOBILITY; SPINE SURGERY; VERTEBRAL CANAL; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINE;

EID: 34548645164     PISSN: 19322275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anclin.2007.05.001     Document Type: Review

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