Comparison of standard polyvinyl chloride tracheal tubes and straight reinforced tracheal tubes for tracheal intubation through different sizes of the airtraq laryngoscope in anesthetized and paralyzed patients: A randomized prospective study

Anesthesiology

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1265-1270

  Dimitriou, Vassilios K ^a   Zogogiannis, Ioannis D ^a   Douma, Amalia K ^a   Pentilas, Nikolaos D ^a   Liotiri, Despoina G ^a   Wachtel, Mitchell S ^b   Karakitsos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYVINYLCHLORIDE; SILICONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGOSCOPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; ADULT; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOASSAY; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; INSTRUMENTATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MANIKINS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYVINYL CHLORIDE; PRONE POSITION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73449091197     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181c0ad5b     Document Type: Article

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