New airway equipment: Opportunities for enhanced safety

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 734-738

  Martin, F ^a   Buggy, D J ^a  

^a MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; GASTRIC SUCTION; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; DEVICE SAFETY; DEVICES; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPE; STANDARDS;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGOSCOPES;

EID: 67649416290     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aep104     Document Type: Editorial

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