The Airtraq to facilitate endotracheal tube exchange in a critically ill, difficult-to-intubate patient

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 485-486

  Matioc, Adrian A ^a   Lopukhin, Olga ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

^b WILLIAM S MIDDLETON MEMORIAL VETERANS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AIRWAY; BALLOON CATHETER; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FIBEROSCOPE; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; LETTER; OBESITY; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEA;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL;

EID: 35449007716     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2007.03.008     Document Type: Letter

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