Guidelines help us to keep calm when facing a difficult airway

Affiliations

Bon-Nyeo Koo. Korean J Anesthesiol. 2016 Jun.

. 2016 Jun;69(3):209-10.

doi: 10.4097/kjae.2016.69.3.209. Epub 2016 Jun 1.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Anesthesia and Pain Research Institute, Seoul, Korea.

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