Appropriate angled-tip front width facilitates tracheal tube introducer placement in difficult-to-displace epiglottis situations
Tracheal tube introducers (TTIs) are a useful aid to a conventional laryngoscopy-intubation method of upper airway access in adults. However, even when TTIs are used, successful tracheal intubation is not guaranteed. Apart from suboptimal practice proficiency and unavailability of the complete reper...
Main Authors: | Amitabh Dutta, Manish Gupta, Prabhat Kumar Choudhary, Jayashree Sood |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2018-01-01
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Series: | Indian Journal of Anaesthesia |
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Online Access: | http://www.ijaweb.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5049;year=2018;volume=62;issue=3;spage=229;epage=232;aulast=Dutta |
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