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Parker Flex-Tip Tube® facilitates intubation when the Pentax-AWS® fails to reach the larynx

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Asahikawa Medical College, Midorigaoka Higashi 2-1-1-1, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, 078-8510, Japan

    Tadahisa Ohmura

  2. Asahikawa Medical College, Asahikawa, Japan

    Akihiro Suzuki, Atsushi Kurosawa, Kazuhiro Fujimoto, Takayuki Kunisawa & Hiroshi Iwasaki

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Ohmura, T., Suzuki, A., Kurosawa, A. et al. Parker Flex-Tip Tube® facilitates intubation when the Pentax-AWS® fails to reach the larynx. J Anesth 24, 974–975 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00540-010-1003-5

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