The impact of manual in-line stabilisation on ventilation and visualisation of the glottis with the LMA CTrach™: A randomised crossover trial

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 894-898

  Ng, B S W ^a   Goy, R W L ^a   Bain, J A ^a   Chen, F G ^a   Liu, Eugene H C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE STABILIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650689620     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2009.05935.x     Document Type: Article

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