The Pentax-AWS® rigid indirect video laryngoscope: Clinical assessment of performance in 320 cases

Anaesthesia

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 641-647

  Suzuki, A ^a   Toyama, Y ^a   Katsumi, N ^a   Kunisawa, T ^a   Sasaki, R ^b   Hirota, K ^b   Henderson, J J ^c   Iwasaki, H ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^c GARTNAVEL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCORING SYSTEM; ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNX; PHARYNGITIS; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNX; PHARYNGITIS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 43549107680     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05452.x     Document Type: Article

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