Difficult airway management: Is there a limit in the selection of the proper device and procedure?

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 555-557

  Guarino, Arturo ^a  

^a VILLA SCASSI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY CONDUCTANCE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION;

ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; BRONCHOSCOPES; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; ITALY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 37249012415     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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