The myth of the difficult airway: Airway management revisited

Anaesthesia

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 244-249

  Huitink, J M ^a   Bouwman, R A ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIST; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PREDICTION; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; REVIEW; SUPRAGLOTTIC AIRWAY DEVICE; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE; ANESTHESIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANESTHESIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 84922680054     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.12989     Document Type: Review

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