Optimising tracheal intubation success rate using the Airtraq laryngoscope

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 315-319

  Dhonneur, Gilles ^a   Abdi, W ^a   Amathieu, R ^a   Ndoko, S ^a   Tual, L ^a  

^a HÔPITAL JEAN VERDIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; ARYTENOID CARTILAGE; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 61749095100     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05757.x     Document Type: Article

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