Is it safe to use supraglottic airway in children with difficult airways?

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 620-622

  Asai, T ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ANESTHESIST; BRONCHOSCOPE; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FACE MASK; FIBREOPTIC BRONCHOSCOPE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; LARYNX SPASM; MANDIBULOFACIAL DYSOSTOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RISK FACTOR; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; SUPRAGLOTTIC AIRWAY DEVICE; TRACHEOMALACIA; VOMITING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE;

EID: 84896939461     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aeu005     Document Type: Editorial

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