BMI as a predictor for potential difficult tracheal intubation in males

Frontiers in Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Uribe, Alberto A ^a   Zvara, David A ^b   Puente, Erika G ^a   Otey, Andrew J ^a   Zhang, Jianying ^c   Bergese, Sergio D ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BMI; Difficult; Obesity; Predictors; Tracheal intubation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015365099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296858X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2015.00038     Document Type: Article

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