A new and simple maneuver to position the left-sided double-lumen tube without the aid of fiberoptic bronchoscopy

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1271-1275

  Bahk, Jae Hyon ^a   Oh, Yong Seok ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAPNOGRAPHY; DEVICE; DOUBLE LUMEN TUBE; ENDOBRONCHIAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; LUNG VENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY; THORAX SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; BRONCHI; BRONCHOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOTHORAX; POLYVINYL CHLORIDE; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TRACHEA; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0031810821     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199806000-00026     Document Type: Article

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