Cervical spine motion: A fluoroscopic comparison of the airtraq laryngoscope versus the macintosh laryngoscope

Anesthesiology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 97-101

  Turkstra, Timothy P ^a,b   Pelz, David M ^b   Jones, Philip M ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE MOBILITY; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 67650092016     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181a8649f     Document Type: Article

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