Usability of AirWay Scope® for awake tracheal intubation in a burn patient with difficult airway

Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1179-1181

  Kato, Takahiro ^a   Kusunoki, Shinji ^a   Kawamoto, Masashi ^a   Yuge, Osafumi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

AirWay Scope ; Awake intubation; Dexmedetomidine

Indexed keywords

DEXMEDETOMIDINE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; MALE; OROPHARYNX; OXYGENATION; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEDATION; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VOCAL CORD;

ADULT; BURNS; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; MALE; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 35348997525     PISSN: 00214892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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