Lightwand guided nasotracheal intubation in children with difficult airways

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1276-1278

  Xue, Fu Shan ^a   Luo, Mao Ping ^a   Liao, Xu ^a   Zhang, Yan Ming ^a  

^a PLASTIC SURGERY HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDURAL CATHETER; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; LETTER; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR ANKYLOSIS; TRACHEOTOMY;

ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; CHILD; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 55149094278     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2008.02799.x     Document Type: Letter

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