Airtraq optical laryngoscope intubation in a 5-month-old infant with a difficult airway because of Robin sequence

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 699-700

  Vlatten, Arnim ^a,b   Soder, Chris ^a,b  

^a IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANAMNESIS; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; INFANT; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PIERRE ROBIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; OPTICAL FIBERS; PIERRE ROBIN SYNDROME;

EID: 67149123641     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2009.03038.x     Document Type: Letter

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