Airway assessment before intervention: What we know and what we do

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1752-1754

  Hung, Orlando ^a   Law, J Adam ^a   Morris, Ian ^a   Murphy, Michael ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FLEXIBLE LARYNGOSCOPE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; TRACHEOTOMY; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL;

EID: 84969849826     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001334     Document Type: Review

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