Videolaryngoscopy - An answer to difficult laryngoscopy?

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 434-435

  Rope, T C ^a   Loughnan, B A ^a   Vaughan, D J A ^a  

^a NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIST; BOUGIE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; GLOTTIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 41549126788     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: 13652346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0265021507002931     Document Type: Letter

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