The lma ctrach™ in patients with difficult airways

Anesthesiology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 941-943

  Liu, Eugene H ^a,c   Wender, Regina ^b   Goldman, Allan J ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; DYSPNEA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBER OPTICS; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY MASS; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65349101139     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31819b62c7     Document Type: Article

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