Comparison of the Glidescope® and Airtraq® optical laryngoscopes in patients undergoing direct microlaryngoscopy

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 323-328

  Lange, Markus ^a   Frommer, M ^a   Redel, A ^a   Trautner, H ^a   Hampel, J ^a   Kranke, P ^a   Kehl, F ^b   Scholtz, L U ^a   Roewer, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Klinikum Karlsruhe   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROLARYNGOSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHARYNX DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT TUMOR; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; DYSPHAGIA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; LARYNGOSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECYCLING;

AGED; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT REUSE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 61749085340     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05781.x     Document Type: Article

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