Appropriate laryngeal mask airway size for overweight and underweight children

Anaesthesia

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-53

  Kim, H J ^a   Park, M J ^a   Kim, J T ^a   Kim, C S ^a   Kim, S D ^a   Kim, Hee Soo ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREMEDICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; UNDERWEIGHT;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IDEAL BODY WEIGHT; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; OROPHARYNX; OVERWEIGHT; THINNESS;

EID: 71949124831     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2009.06160.x     Document Type: Article

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