III. Preoperative assessment of the airway: Should anaesthetists be making use of modern imaging techniques?

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 758-760

  Gillespie, S ^a   Farling, Peter A ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ANESTHESIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LARYNX STENOSIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 9744250111     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aeh276     Document Type: Editorial

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