A comparison of the reliability of two techniques of left double-lumen tube bronchial cuff inflation in producing water-tight seal of the left mainstem bronchus

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1027-1031

  Hannallah, Medhat S ^a   Gharagozloo, Farid ^a   Gomes, Mario N ^a   Chase, Gary A ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; ENDOBRONCHIAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ASPIRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIABILITY; SURGICAL PATIENT;

AGED; BRONCHI; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE;

EID: 0031784633     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199811000-00008     Document Type: Article

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