Capnography-guided nasotracheal intubation of a patient with a difficult airway and unwanted respiratory depression

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 734-736

  Mentzelopoulos, Spyros D ^a,b   Augustatou, Callirroi G ^a   Papageorgiou, Evangelos P ^a  

^a Egion General Hospital   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CAPNOGRAPHY; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031660069     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/00000539-199809000-00049     Document Type: Article

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