Ultrasound of the airway

Indian Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 456-462

  Kundra, Pankaj ^a   Mishra, Sandeep Kumar ^a   Ramesh, Anathakrishnan ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Airway; Ultrasonography; Upper respiratory tract

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ANESTHESIA; CANNULATION; CARTILAGE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRICOID; CRICOTHYROID CARTILAGE; DOUBLE LUMEN BRONCHIAL TUBE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIGLOTTITIS; ESOPHAGUS; EXTUBATION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; HYOID BONE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX CARTILAGE; MAXILLA SINUSITIS; MOUTH; OBESITY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PREDICTION; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT EXAMINATION; REVIEW; STRIDOR; THYROID GLAND; TONGUE; TRACHEA SURGERY; TRACHEOSTOMY; TUBE; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VOCAL CORD; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 82955194454     PISSN: 00195049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5049.89868     Document Type: Review

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