Evaluation of the Video Intubation Unit in morbid obese patients

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-58

  Bathory, I ^a   Granges, J C ^a   Frascarolo, P ^a   Magnusson, L ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; VIDEO INTUBATION UNIT;

ADULT; BARIATRIC SURGERY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 72249089517     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2009.02119.x     Document Type: Article

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