The Ultimate Difficult Airway: Minimizing Emergency Surgical Access
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The ultimate difficult airway: minimizing emergency surgical access.
Quentin A. Fisher, MD As a sage observer once noted, the more treatments there are available for a condition, the less likely any of them are ideal. The same principle might hold for assessing and managing airway difficulties. Readers well know how our literature is replete with tests, scoring systems, and devices aimed at anticipating and dealing with these vexing problems. However, a small bu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Anesthesia & Analgesia
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0003-2999
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181b6e9ce