Awake tracheal intubation using the Airtraq® laryngoscope: A case series: Case Report

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 964-967

  Dimitriou, V K ^a,b   Zogogiannis, I D ^a   Liotiri, D G ^a  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANAMNESIS; ANESTHESIST; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; LARYNGOSCOPE; MALE; OROPHARYNX; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; VOCAL CORD; WAKEFULNESS;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND;

EID: 67651249543     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2009.02012.x     Document Type: Article

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