Evaluation of a single-use intubating videoscope (Ambu aScope™) in three airway training manikins for oral intubation, nasal intubation and intubation via three supraglottic airway devices

Anaesthesia

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 293-299

  Scutt, S ^a   Clark, N ^a   Cook, Tim M ^a   Smith, C ^a   Christmas, T ^a   Coppel, L ^a   Crewdson, K ^a  

^a ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; ENDOSCOPE; FIBEROSCOPE; LARYNGEAL MASK; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; SURGICAL TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEOENDOSCOPY; VIDEOSCOPE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MANIKINS; NASAL CAVITY; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 79952748272     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06647.x     Document Type: Article

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