Recognition and management of the difficult airway

Scott-Brown's Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 514-534

  Pearce, Adrian ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

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