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Jaw lift causes less laryngeal interference during lightwand-guided intubation than combined jaw and tongue traction applied by single operator

Lightwand-guided intubation is a semi-blind technique that takes advantage of the anterior location of the trachea in relation to the oesophagus. Fibreoptic evaluation of lightwand-guided intubation has revealed a possibility of laryngeal interference and epiglottic distortion. Jaw lift, tongue trac...

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Autores principales: Goneppanavar, Umesh, Nair, Akshay, Kini, Gurudas
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3106388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21712872
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.79896