Is video laryngoscope-assisted flexible tracheoscope intubation feasible for patients with predicted difficult airway? A prospective, randomized clinical trial

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1259-1265

  Lenhardt, Rainer ^a,b   Burkhart, Mary Tyler ^a   Brock, Guy N ^c   Kanchi Kandadai, Sunitha ^a   Sharma, Rachana ^a   Akça, Ozan ^a,b  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b OUTCOMES RESEARCH CONSORTIUM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEOXYGENATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FLEXIBLE TRACHEOSCOPE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OTOLARYNGOLOGY ENDOSCOPE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE OXIMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE; VOCAL CORD;

ADULT; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIGLOTTIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRACHEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84901357626     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000220     Document Type: Article

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