Videolaryngoscopes: Do they truly have roles in difficult airways?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 515-517

  Asai, Takashi ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; LARYNGOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; COBALT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84859110860     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e318246e866     Document Type: Editorial

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