Management of the anticipated and unanticipated difficult airway in anesthesia outside the operating room

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 481-488

  Neyrinck, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

airway management; anesthesia outside operating room; difficult intubation; difficult ventilation

Indexed keywords

INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; REMIFENTANIL; ROCURONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM;

AIRWAY CREATION DEVICE; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALGORITHM; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIST; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPERATING ROOM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; REVIEW; VIDEOENDOSCOPY; VIDEORECORDING; WORK EXPERIENCE;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANESTHESIA; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84880766481     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: 14736500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e328362cc69     Document Type: Review

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