Relying on just a few predictors of easy airway management may bite back! [2]

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 668-

  Law, J Adam ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BITE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; LETTER; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; OBESITY; OXYGENATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; THORAX WALL; TRACHEOTOMY; UPPER LIP; UPPER LIP BITE TEST;

EID: 38549141588     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318161970f     Document Type: Letter

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