The importance of increased neck circumference to intubation difficulties in obese patients

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1132-1136

  Gonzalez, Hélène ^a   Minville, Vincent ^a   Delanoue, Khedija ^a   Mazerolles, Michel ^a   Concina, Dominique ^a   Fourcade, Olivier ^a  

^a TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK; OBESITY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 41349096945     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181679659     Document Type: Article

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