A randomized comparison between the pentax aws video laryngoscope and the macintosh laryngoscope in morbidly obese patients

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1082-1087

  Abdallah, Rania ^a   Galway, Ursula ^a   You, Jing ^a   Kurz, Andrea ^a   Sessler, Daniel I ^a   Doyle, D John ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEA;

EID: 80055097442     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31822cf47d     Document Type: Article

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