Fiberoptic versus videolaryngoscopic management of the difficult airway: Problems with postrandomization patient exclusion

Anesthesiology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 460-

  Todd, Michael M ^a   Bayman, Emine O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LARYNGOSCOPY; LETTER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RESPIRATION CONTROL; VIDEOENDOSCOPY; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPY;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE;

EID: 84872870485     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31827bd227     Document Type: Letter

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