The Shikani Optical Stylet: A useful adjunct to airway management in a neonate with popliteal pterygium syndrome

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 188-190

  Jansen, Andrea H ^a   Johnston, Graham ^a,b  

^a ROYAL ABERDEEN CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airway; Intubation; Neonate

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; SEVOFLURANE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; FIBEROSCOPE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTUBATION; MANDIBLE; MAXILLA; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALATE; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGIUM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SYNGNATHIA; TONGUE; WEBBED NECK;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; METHYL ETHERS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 37749030892     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2007.02401.x     Document Type: Article

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