Recent developments in the management of the difficult airway
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1 Head, Department of Anesthesia, Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology Tel Aviv University, Israel; Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland OH, USA 2 Head, Department of Anesthesia, Rebecca Sief Medical Center, Zefad, Instructor of Anesthesiology, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 3 Director of the Mother and Child Anesthesia Center, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Senior Lecturer of Anesthesiology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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Airway management is one of the most important subjects in medicine. This article reviews the history, assessment of airway prior to anesthesia, techniques and equip-ment of airway management and management of patients with anticipated and unan-ticipated difficult airways. This article covers recent literature on airway appliances and devices and their use in different circumstances. Airway ass...
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