Management of severe tracheal obstruction with helium/oxygen and a laryngeal mask airway

Anaesthesia

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1087-1089

  Milner, Q J W ^a   Abdy, S ^a   Allen, J G ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH II HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airway; obstruction; Complications; Gardner's syndrome; Equipment; airway, laryngeal mask; Gases, nonanaesthetic; helium

Indexed keywords

HELIOX; HELIUM; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG MIXTURE; FEMALE; GARDNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; TRACHEA OBSTRUCTION; TRACHEOSTOMY;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; GARDNER SYNDROME; HELIUM; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 0030693806     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1997.252-az0386.x     Document Type: Article

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