An experience with intubating laryngeal mask airway for difficult airway management: Report on 38 cases

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1234-1238

  Thienthong, Somboon ^a   Horatanarung, Duenpen ^a   Wongswadiwat, Malinee ^a   Boonmak, Polpun ^a   Chinachoti, Thitima ^b   Simajareuk, Suthannee ^a  

^a KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Difficult airway management; Endotracheal tube; Intubating laryngeal mask airway

Indexed keywords

POLYVINYL DERIVATIVE; SILASTIC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BOUGIE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTUBATING LARYNGEAL MASK AIRWAY; LAMINECTOMY; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; NECK TUMOR; OBESITY; OXYGEN SATURATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SILASTIC TUBE; SPINE FRACTURE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THAILAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 8444236024     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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