Evaluation of the size 4 i-gel™ airway in one hundred non-paralysed patients

Anaesthesia

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1124-1130

  Gatward, J J ^a   Cook, T M ^a   Seller, C ^a   Handel, J ^a   Simpson, T ^a   Vanek, V ^a   Kelly, F ^a  

^a ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY; AIRWAY DEVICE; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGITIS;

EID: 51349155510     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05561.x     Document Type: Article

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