Supraglottic airway devices in difficult airway management: a retrospective cohort study of 658,104 general anaesthetics registered in the Danish Anaesthesia Database

Anaesthesia

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 151-157

  Thomsen, J L D ^a,b   Norskov A K ^c   Rosenstock, C V ^b,c  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

airway management; difficult airway algorithm; failed tracheal intubation: treatment; supraglottic airway device

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; AGED; DEVICES; FACTUAL DATABASE; LARYNGEAL MASK; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85054524504     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.14443     Document Type: Article

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