Neck circumference and difficult intubation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1756-1757

  Hassani, Adam ^a   Kessell, Gareth ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LETTER; NECK; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADULT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HISTOLOGY; LARYNGOSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MORBID OBESITY; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

HYDROXYZINE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; HUMANS; HYDROXYZINE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; NECK; OBESITY; OBESITY, MORBID;

EID: 56149096887     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318187860b     Document Type: Letter

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