Bedside prediction of airway length in adults and children

Anesthesiology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 556-560

  Lee, Bong Jae ^a   Yi, Jae Woo ^a   Chung, Jun Young ^a   Kim, Dong Ok ^a   Kang, Jong Man ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEAD; HUMAN; INCISOR; LUNG VENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANUBRIOSTERNAL SYNCHONDROSIS; OXYGEN MASK; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNUM; TRACHEA;

EID: 69549116773     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181af6496     Document Type: Article

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