Awake intubation using the LMA-CTrach™ in patients with difficult airways

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 387-391

  López, Ana M ^a   Valero, R ^b   Pons, M ^a   Anglada, T ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIRWAY DYNAMICS; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FIBEROSCOPE; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; OROPHARYNX; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; TONSIL DISEASE; VOCAL CORD; WAKEFULNESS; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RECALL; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MENTAL RECALL; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64149118325     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05797.x     Document Type: Article

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