Comparison of the airtraq and the macintosh laryngoscope for double-lumen tube intubation: A randomised clinical trial

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 180-186

  Wasem, Simone ^a   Lazarus, Marc ^a   Hain, Johannes ^b   Festl, Jasmin ^c   Kranke, Peter ^a   Roewer, Norbert ^a   Lange, Markus ^a   Smul, Thorsten M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Department of Mathematics ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORMACK AND LEHANE GRADE; DOUBLE LUMEN TUBE; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMODYNAMICS; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTUBATION DIFFICULTY SCALE; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SORE THROAT; THORAX SURGERY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOARSENESS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876238198     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: 13652346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EJA.0b013e32835fe574     Document Type: Article

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