Central airway compression. Anaesthetic and intensive care consequences

Anaesthesia

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 158-162

  McMahon, C C ^a   Rainey, L ^b,c   Fulton, B ^b   Conacher, I D ^a  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airway; obstruction; Complications; hypoxaemia; Lung; hyperinflation, trachea, compression; Surgery; mediastinoscopy, bronchoscopy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM MASS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; TRACHEA COMPRESSION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0031040366     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1997.64-az0066.x     Document Type: Article

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