The endoflex® tube enhances navigability through the nasal cavity during nasotracheal intubation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1358-1359

  Sugiyama, Kazuna ^a   Takahashi, Naoki ^a   Kohjitani, Atsushi ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL; THIOPENTAL; VECURONIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EPISTAXIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; NOSE CAVITY; ORAL SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEA OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TUBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHEST TUBES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63849106912     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318197c905     Document Type: Letter

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