Awake intubation with the Bonfils fibrescope in patients with difficult airway

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 837-841

  Corbanese, Ulisse ^a   Possamai, Clemente ^a  

^a Ospedale S Maria dei Battuti   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fibre optic technology; Intratracheal instrumentation; Intubation

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; BONFILS FIBERSCOPE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; FEMALE; FIBEROSCOPE; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPE; MALE; SEDATION; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; WAKEFULNESS;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; FEMALE; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 77249095272     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: 13652346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EJA.0b013e32832c6076     Document Type: Article

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