A comparison of the ease of tracheal intubation using a McGrath MAC® laryngoscope and a standard Macintosh laryngoscope

Anaesthesia

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1281-1285

  Wallace, C D ^a   Foulds, L T ^a   McLeod, G A ^b   Younger, R A ^c   McGuire, B E ^a  

^a NINEWELLS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c PERTH ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADULT; BODY MASS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE COMPARISON; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTUBATION DIFFICULTY SCORES; LARYNGOSCOPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OPERATOR; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE; VOCAL CORD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; VIDEORECORDING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84943570021     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.13209     Document Type: Conference Paper

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