Welcome to the era of universal airway management

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesia, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
² Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, Warrington Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cheshire, UK.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA.

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Editorial

N Chrimes et al. Anaesthesia. 2020 Jun.

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. 2020 Jun;75(6):711-715.

doi: 10.1111/anae.14998. Epub 2020 Mar 6.

¹ Department of Anaesthesia, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
² Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, Warrington Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cheshire, UK.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA.

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Keywords: airway; guidelines; human factors.

Comment on

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