Airway assessment: A critical appraisal

Airway Management

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 15-32

  Khan, Zahid H ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Airway assessment tests; Difficult airway; Prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929085962     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08578-4_2     Document Type: Chapter

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