Gown tie causing difficult ventilation
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Difficult face-mask ventilation and difficult laryngoscopy.
To the Editor: Our thanks are due to Kheterpal et al. 1 for another valuable addition to our understanding of airway management during anesthesia. Their work suggests that provided we exclude the patients with obvious abnormalities, we will find that the incidence of the combination of difficult mask ventilation (DMV) and difficult laryngoscopy (DL) is infrequent but not rare (0.4%), and the ou...
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عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0003-2409,1365-2044
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1995.tb04548.x