The Brain laryngeal mask airway. An alternative to emergency tracheal intubation.
The laryngeal mask airway was used to resuscitate a patient in whom direct and fibreoptic laryngoscopy were impossible because of cervical pathology and pulmonary oedema. The laryngeal mask airway may be an alternative to tracheal intubation in emergency resuscitation.
Calder
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Department of Anaesthesia, National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases, London.
Ordman
A J
AJ
Jackowski
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A
Crockard
H A
HA
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D007830:Larynx; D008397:Masks; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000295:instrumentation*