‘Failed supraglottic airway’: an algorithm for suboptimally placed supraglottic airway devices based on videolaryngoscopy

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 645-649

  Van Zundert, A A J ^a   Gatt, S P ^b   Kumar, C M ^c   Van Zundert, T C R V ^d   Pandit, J J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c KHOO TECK PUAT HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^d FIONA STANLEY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEOENDOSCOPY; DEVICES; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; PROCEDURES; RESPIRATION CONTROL; STANDARDS;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGOSCOPY;

EID: 85022223299     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aex093     Document Type: Editorial

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