Brief report: Tracheal intubation using the Bonfils intubation fibrescope or direct laryngoscopy for patients with a simulated difficult airway

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 232-237

  Byhahn, Christian ^a   Nemetz, Sebastian ^a   Breitkreutz, Raoul ^a   Zwissler, Bernhard ^a   Kaufmann, Manfred ^a   Meininger, Dirk ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BRACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FIBEROSCOPE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUTH; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SIMULATION;

EID: 42249114003     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03021507     Document Type: Article

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