Tracheal intubation with restricted access: A randomised comparison of the Pentax-Airway Scope and Macintosh laryngoscope in a manikin

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1114-1117

  Asai, Takashi ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LUNG VENTILATION; SUPINE POSITION; VOCAL CORD; CAR DRIVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; LUNG; PATIENT POSITIONING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEAT; TRACHEA; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE;

AUTOMOBILES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; MANIKINS; POSTURE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SUPINE POSITION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349336439     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2009.06014.x     Document Type: Article

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