Difficult Direct Laryngoscopy Complicating Intubation for Anaesthesia
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Expected difficult tracheal intubation: a prospective comparison of direct laryngoscopy and video laryngoscopy in 200 patients.
BACKGROUND The Berci-Kaplan video laryngoscope was developed to improve the visualization of the glottis and ease tracheal intubation. Whether this technique is also effective in patients with an expected difficult intubation is unclear. We have prospectively evaluated the conditions and success rate of tracheal intubation in patients with a Mallampati score of III or IV. METHODS Two hundred ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1956
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.4965.488