Easy and difficult nasal intubation - A randomised comparison of Macintosh vs Airtraq® laryngoscopes

Anaesthesia

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 132-138

  St Mont, G ^a   Biesler, I ^a   Pfortner R ^b   Mohr, C ^b   Groeben, H ^a  

^a KLINIKEN ESSEN MITTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MOUTH; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SWELLING; TIME; TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; RISK FACTORS; SURGERY, ORAL; TRACHEA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856012883     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06943.x     Document Type: Article

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