Retrospective audit of the air-Q intubating laryngeal airway as a conduit for tracheal intubation in pediatric patients with a difficult airway

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 422-427

  Jagannathan, Narasimhan ^a   Kho, Melanie F ^b   Kozlowski, Ryan J ^c   Sohn, Lisa E ^a   Siddiqui, Aisha ^a   Wong, David T ^d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

air Q; intubating laryngeal airway; intubating LMA; LMA; pediatric difficult airway

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DIFFICULT AIRWAY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INFANT; INTUBATING LARYNGEAL AIRWAY; LARYNGEAL MASK; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEWBORN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPINE INSTABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; OXYGEN; PILOT PROJECTS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 79952483424     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2010.03494.x     Document Type: Article

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