The difficult pediatric airway - A review of new devices for indirect laryngoscopy in children younger than two years of age

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 98-103

  Holm Knudsen, Rolf ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

airway device; children; difficult airway; indirect laryngoscopy; infant

Indexed keywords

CAMERA; CHILD; COST; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBER OPTICS; GLOTTIS; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFANT; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MOUTH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MOUTH;

EID: 78651308095     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2010.03487.x     Document Type: Review

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