Laryngoscopy force, visualization, and intubation failure in acute trauma: Should we modify the practice of manual in-line stabilization?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-7

  Manoach, Seth ^a   Paladino, Lorenzo ^a  

^a SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ANESTHESIST; CADAVER; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ACUTE DISEASE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EQUIPMENT; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA;

ACUTE DISEASE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; PHYSICAL PROCESSES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 58749102451     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e318190b27b     Document Type: Editorial

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