Comparative effectiveness of the C-MAC video laryngoscope versus direct laryngoscopy in the setting of the predicted difficult airway

Anesthesiology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 629-636

  Aziz, Michael F ^a   Dillman, Dawn ^a   Fu, Rongwei ^b   Ansgar M Brambrink, ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84859099463     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e318246ea34     Document Type: Article

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