Use of the air-Q® intubating laryngeal airway for rapid-sequence intubation in infants with severe airway obstruction: A case series

Anaesthesia

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 636-638

  Jagannathan, N ^a   Sohn, L E ^a   Eidem, J M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BREATHING CIRCUIT; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTUBATION; MALE; NEWBORN; OXYGEN DESATURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PIERRE ROBIN SYNDROME; RAPID SEQUENCE INTUBATION; SYNDROME CHARGE; TIDAL VOLUME; EQUIPMENT; FIBER OPTICS;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877786125     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.12230     Document Type: Article

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