Local anesthetic administration for awake direct laryngoscopy: Are glossopharyngeal nerve blocks superior?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 34-40

  Sitzman, B Todd ^b   Rich, George F ^a   Rockwell, Jeffrey J ^b   Leisure, George S ^b   Durieux, Marcel E ^b   Difazio, Cosmo A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Airway; difficult; Anesthetic techniques: direct laryngoscopy; nerve block; Anesthetics, local; lidocaine; Nerve: glossopharyngeal

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LARYNGOSCOPY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPY; LIDOCAINE; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0031020290     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199701000-00006     Document Type: Article

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