The performance of rigid scopes for tracheal intubation: a randomised, controlled trial in patients with a simulated difficult airway

Anaesthesia

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1456-1463

  Kleine Brueggeney, M ^a,b   Greif, R ^b   Urwyler, N ^c   Wirthmuller B ^b   Theiler, L ^b  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Spitalzentrum Oberwallis ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cervical fracture: intubation techniques; difficult airway algorithm; failed intubation: treatment; rigid fibreoptic scopes; simulated difficult airway

Indexed keywords

ATRACURIUM BESILATE; FENTANYL; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; ROCURONIUM;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CERVICAL COLLAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBEROSCOPE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATION; SORE THROAT; TONGUE PARESTHESIA; VOMITING; ADULT; ADVERSE DEVICE EFFECT; AGED; DEVICES; FIBER OPTICS; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84989236134     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.13626     Document Type: Article

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