Intubation biomechanics: Laryngoscope force and cervical spine motion during intubation with macintosh and airtraq laryngoscopes

Anesthesiology

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 260-271

  Hindman, Bradley J ^a   Santoni, Brandon G ^b   Puttlitz, Christian M ^c   From, Robert P ^a   Todd, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b FOUNDATION FOR ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION   (United States)

^c Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SEVOFLURANE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY SYSTEM; FORCE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MOTION; PAIN; PRESSURE CHAMBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGID LARYNGOSCOPE; SORE THROAT; TOOTH DISEASE; VOICE CHANGE; VOICE DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HEAD; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; NECK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINE; SUPINE POSITION; TOOTH INJURIES; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 84905024039     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000000263     Document Type: Article

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