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Airway Evaluation and Management

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Understand the relevance and importance of airway management in anesthesiology

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Shawn T. Beaman, Patrick J. Forte & David G. Metro

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

    Jesse M. Ehrenfeld

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

  3. Perioperative Services,Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Scott Segal

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Beaman, S.T., Forte, P.J., Metro, D.G. (2016). Airway Evaluation and Management. In: Ehrenfeld, J., Urman, R., Segal, S. (eds) Anesthesia Student Survival Guide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11083-7_9

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