Efficacy of Coopdech videolaryngoscope: Comparisons with a Macintosh laryngoscope and the Airway Scope in a manikin with difficult airways

Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 617-620

  Saito, Tomoyuki ^a   Asai, Takashi ^b   Arai, Takero ^a   Tachikawa, Mayumi ^a   Shimazaki, Mutsuhisa ^a   Okuda, Yasuhisa ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airways; Difficult airways; Laryngoscopes

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GLOTTIS; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX SPASM; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; RIGIDITY; TONGUE EDEMA; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE;

ADULT; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EDEMA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGISMUS; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MANIKINS; SPINAL DISEASES; TONGUE DISEASES;

EID: 84867999383     PISSN: 09138668     EISSN: 14388359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00540-012-1380-z     Document Type: Article

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