Editorial: Difficult mask ventilation: What needs improvement?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1720-1722

  Salem, M Ramez ^a,b   Ovassapian, Andranik ^c  

^a ADVOCATE ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALGORITHM; ANESTHESIST; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; CERVICAL SPINE; EDITORIAL; EXTUBATION; FACE MASK; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTUBATION; JOINT MOBILITY; LARYNX SPASM; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NASOPHARYNX; OROPHARYNX; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SNIFFING; SOFT TISSUE; VOCAL CORD; WAKEFULNESS; ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 73949117831     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181be0541     Document Type: Editorial

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