Use of the King LT for emergency airway management

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 979-982

  Khaja, Sobia F ^a   Provenzano, Matthew J ^a   Chang, Kristi E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LACERATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PHARYNX DISEASE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REUSABLE SUPRAGLOTTIC AIRWAY; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TONGUE SWELLING; TRACHEOSTOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 78049328631     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 1538361X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archoto.2010.172     Document Type: Article

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