Assessment Before Airway Management

Anesthesiology Clinics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 257-278

  Baker, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Airway; Airway management; Assessment; Intubation; Laryngoscopy; Techniques; Tracheal

Indexed keywords

NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT;

ACROMEGALY; AGE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPOSITE MULTIVARIABLE RISK SCORE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FACE MASK; GOITER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NASOPHARYNGOSCOPY; OBESITY; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THREE COLUMN MODEL; TRACHEOTOMY; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; NECK; TRACHEA;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; NECK; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POINT-OF-CARE TESTING; RISK FACTORS; TRACHEA;

EID: 84929666684     PISSN: 19322275     EISSN: 22103538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anclin.2015.02.001     Document Type: Review

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