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1 - Understanding the ASA Difficult Airway Algorithm

from Section 1 - Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2017

By
Katherine C. Normand  and
Carin A. Hagberg
Edited by
D. John Doyle  and
Basem Abdelmalak
D. John Doyle
Affiliation:
Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi
Basem Abdelmalak
Affiliation:
Cleveland Clinic, Ohio
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Clinical Airway Management
An Illustrated Case-Based Approach
 , pp. 1 - 6
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2000

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