Trauma airway salvage using an optical stylet with oxygen insufflation

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 317-318

  Manoach, Seth ^a,b   Paladino, Lorenzo ^a,b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; DEVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EPIGLOTTIS; HUMAN; INJURY; LARYNGOSCOPY; LETTER; MALE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; MALE; PHARYNX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 46249084948     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2008.01.008     Document Type: Letter

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