Twelve hours of gastric ventilation: A recipe for disaster (a suggested remedy)

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 171-173

  Crockett, Douglas E ^a   Tays, Renae ^a   Brock Utne, John G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CO2 monitoring; Nasogastric tube; Oesophageal intubation; Tracheal tube

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; PANCURONIUM;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LARYNGOSCOPY; LUNG DYSPLASIA; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

ANESTHESIA; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MEDICAL ERRORS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0031908615     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.1998.00721.x     Document Type: Article

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