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Editorial

. 2019 Oct;33(5):757-758.

doi: 10.1007/s10877-019-00315-x. Epub 2019 Apr 24.

Laryngeal mask airway and the enigma of anatomical sizing

Davide Cattano¹, Tom C R V Van Zundert², Jacek Wojtczak³

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¹ Department of Anesthesiology, The McGovern Medical School at Houston, UTHealth, Houston, TX, USA. Davide.Cattano@uth.tmc.edu.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg, Genk, Belgium and Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA.

PMID: 31020443
DOI: 10.1007/s10877-019-00315-x

Editorial

Laryngeal mask airway and the enigma of anatomical sizing

Davide Cattano et al. J Clin Monit Comput. 2019 Oct.

. 2019 Oct;33(5):757-758.

doi: 10.1007/s10877-019-00315-x. Epub 2019 Apr 24.

Authors

Davide Cattano¹, Tom C R V Van Zundert², Jacek Wojtczak³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, The McGovern Medical School at Houston, UTHealth, Houston, TX, USA. Davide.Cattano@uth.tmc.edu.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg, Genk, Belgium and Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA.

PMID: 31020443
DOI: 10.1007/s10877-019-00315-x

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Cricoid-mental distance-based versus weight-based criteria for size selection of classic laryngeal mask airway in adults: a randomized controlled study.
Zhu Y, Shen W, Lin Y, Huang T, Xie L, Yang Y, Chen H, Gan X. Zhu Y, et al. J Clin Monit Comput. 2019 Oct;33(5):759-765. doi: 10.1007/s10877-019-00308-w. Epub 2019 Apr 8. J Clin Monit Comput. 2019. PMID: 30963460 Clinical Trial.

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