Crisis management during anaesthesia: difficult intubation
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Crisis management during anaesthesia: difficult intubation.
BACKGROUND Anaesthetists may experience difficulty with intubation unexpectedly which may be associated with difficulty in ventilating the patient. If not well managed, there may be serious consequences for the patient. A simple structured approach to this problem was developed to assist the anaesthetist in this difficult situation. OBJECTIVES To examine the role of a specific sub-algorithm f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Quality and Safety in Health Care
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1475-3898,1475-3901
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.2002.004135