Laryngoscopy: Time to change our view

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 351-354

  Frerk, C M ^a   Lee, G ^b  

^a NORTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Oxford Deanery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SCORING SYSTEM; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 64149108119     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05855.x     Document Type: Editorial

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