Awake videolaryngoscopy-assisted tracheal intubation of the morbidly obese

Anaesthesia

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 232-235

  Moore, A R ^a   Schricker, T ^a   Court, O ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AWAKE VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPY ASSISTED TRACHEAL INTUBATION; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATION CONTROL; REVIEW; SEDATION; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TREATMENT FAILURE; VIDEOENDOSCOPY; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; VIDEO RECORDING; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84856821005     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06979.x     Document Type: Review

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