Intubating LMA guided awake fibreoptic intubation in severe maxillofacial injury
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Corresponding author: Jin-Kyoung Kim, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 50, Ilwon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3410-2477, Fax: 82-2-3410-6626, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial L...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0832-610X,1496-8975
DOI: 10.1007/bf03024871