Laryngoscopy via macintosh blade versus glidescope: Success rate and time for endotracheal intubation in untrained medical personnel

Anesthesiology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 32-37

  Nouruzi Sedeh, Parichehr ^a   Schumann, Mark ^a   Groeben, Harald ^a  

^a KLINIKEN ESSEN MITTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIRECT LARYNGOSCOPY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEO ASSISTED LARYNGOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TIME; VOLUNTARY WORKER;

ADULT; AGED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 58749099150     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e318190b6a7     Document Type: Article

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