A technique for safe endotracheal tube exchange in difficult airway patients

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 684-685

  Hou, R M ^a   Crooke, B ^a   Greenland, K B ^a   Comadira, G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; CATHETER; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LARYNGOSCOPY; LETTER; MORBIDITY; OROPHARYNX; OXYGENATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TOILET; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE;

HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY;

EID: 84885392102     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: 14480271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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