'From darkness into light': Time to make awake intubation with videolaryngoscopy the primary technique for an anticipated difficult airway?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 387-392

  Fitzgerald, E ^a   Hodzovic, I ^b,c   Smith, A F ^d  

^a Wessex Deanery   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ANEURIN BEVAN UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL LANCASTER INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBEROSCOPE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE; WAKEFULNESS; LARYNGOSCOPE; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; PROCEDURES;

ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES;

EID: 84924506063     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.13042     Document Type: Review

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