Airway scope and StyletScope for tracheal intubation in a simulated difficult airway

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 273-279

  Komatsu, Ryu ^a   Kamata, Kotoe ^a   Hamada, Keiko ^a   Sessler, Daniel I ^b   Ozaki, Makoto ^c  

^a Kosei Hospital   (Japan)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE; VECURONIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS INJURY; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH INJURY; MUSCLE RELAXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPINE INSTABILITY; BRACE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXERCISE; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58749102601     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31818a4398     Document Type: Article

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