Airtraq in difficult/ failed intubation
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Difficult and failed intubation in obstetrics.
Obstetric general anaesthesia is associated with a number of deleterious effects and it has long been recognized that airway management can be challenging and tracheal intubation more likely to fail. Failed intubation and subsequent inadequate ventilation is an important cause of maternal mortality and morbidity. General anaesthesia for Caesarean section has dramatically declined in many nation...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sri Lankan Journal of Anaesthesiology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2279-1965,1391-8834
DOI: 10.4038/slja.v21i1.4566