Awake orotracheal intubation with the Bonfils fibrescope in patients with a difficult airway

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 311-312

  Corbanese, Ulisse ^a   Possamai, Clemente ^a  

^a Ospedale S Maria dei Battuti   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FIBEROSCOPE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGOSCOPE; LETTER; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POST HOC ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; WAKEFULNESS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE;

HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LIDOCAINE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 77953772568     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: 13652346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EJA.0b013e328336795b     Document Type: Letter

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