Supraglottic airways in difficult airway management: Successes, failures, use and misuse

Anaesthesia

Volumn 66, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages 45-56

  Timmermann, A ^a,b  

^a HELIOS KLINIKUM EMIL VON BEHRING   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BREATHING; DEVICE SAFETY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FACE MASK; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OPERATING ROOM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESUSCITATION; SIMULATOR; SUPRAGLOTTIC AIRWAY DEVICE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TIDAL VOLUME; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MANIKINS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 81155146136     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06934.x     Document Type: Article

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