Review of video laryngoscopy and rigid fiberoptic laryngoscopy

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 750-758

  Pott, Leonard M ^a   Murray, W Bosseau ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiberoptic; Intubation; Laryngoscopy; Rigid fiberoptic; Video laryngoscopy

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; CERVICAL SPINE; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; GLOTTIS; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; ILLUMINATION; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; OXYGENATION; PALATOPHARYNGEAL ARCH DAMAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINE INSTABILITY; TRACHEOSTOMY; WAKEFULNESS;

EMERGENCIES; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 56849104471     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e3283184227     Document Type: Review

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