Randomized cross-over comparison of cervical-spine motion with the AirWay Scope or Macintosh laryngoscope with in-line stabilization: A video-fluoroscopic study

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 563-567

  Maruyama, K ^a   Yamada, T ^b   Kawakami, R ^c   Hara, K ^b  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b Iida Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^c Specified Medical Corporation Jisenkai Aizawa Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airway; Anaesthetic techniques, laryngoscopy; Anatomy, cervical vertebra; Complications, neurological; Equipment, laryngoscopes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATIENT SCHEDULING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATION; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 51849102957     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aen207     Document Type: Article

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