Difficult airways, difficult intubations and predicted difficult intubations: important differences or mere semantics?
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عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0003-2409
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2009.06093_1.x