Risk factors assessment of the difficult airway: An Italian survey of 1956 patients

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1774-1779

  Cattano, D ^a,d   Panicucci, E ^b   Paolicchi, A ^a   Forfori, F ^a   Giunta, F ^a   Hagberg, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ITALY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MOUTH; NECK; OROPHARYNX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 9244237622     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000136772.38754.01     Document Type: Review

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