The importance of prospective observational studies in airway management: yet only the first step

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¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.

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L V Duggan et al. Anaesthesia. 2021 Dec.

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. 2021 Dec;76(12):1555-1558.

doi: 10.1111/anae.15538. Epub 2021 Jun 29.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.

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Keywords: adverse events; airway management; obesity.

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