Pediatric airway management: Current practices and future directions

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1008-1015

  Sunder, Rani A ^a   Haile, Dawit T ^b   Farrell, Patrick T ^c   Sharma, Anshuman ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

difficult airway; equipment; management; medical education; pediatric; simulation

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; SEVOFLURANE;

ALGORITHM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COUGHING; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXTUBATION; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX SPASM; LUNG VENTILATION; MANDIBULOFACIAL DYSOSTOSIS; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OFF LABEL DRUG USE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PEDIATRIC AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SIMULATION;

AIRWAY EXTUBATION; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANESTHESIA; CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; PEDIATRICS;

EID: 84866259963     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pan.12013     Document Type: Review

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