Complications with supraglottic airways: Something to worry about or much ado about nothing?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1183-1185

  Asai, Takashi ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DENTITION; DEVICE REMOVAL; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FACE MASK; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNX SPASM; OBESITY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ASPIRATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE;

EID: 84861609818     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e318255e6cb     Document Type: Editorial

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