Airway management: Standardization, simplicity, and daily practice are the keys to success

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1073-

  Heidegger, Thomas ^a  

^a Spitalregion Rheintal Werdenberg Sarganserland   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FIBER OPTICS; LETTER; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; STANDARDIZATION; ANESTHESIA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STANDARD;

ANESTHESIA; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 77957706589     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181ec312a     Document Type: Letter

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