A comparison of a flexometallic tracheal tube with the intubating laryngeal mask tracheal tube for nasotracheal fibreoptic intubation using the two-scope technique

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1303-1306

  Rai, M R ^a   Scott, S H ^a   Marfin, A G ^a   Popat, M T ^a   Pandit, J J ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRACURIUM; FENTANYL; ISOFLURANE; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNX CARTILAGE; LARYNX INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOTRACHEAL FIBREOPTIC INTUBATION; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ORAL SURGERY; ROTATION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; FEMALE; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449645017     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2009.06106.x     Document Type: Article

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