Airway management for an uncooperative patient with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 110-111

  Ishimura, H ^a   Minami, K ^a   Sata, Takeyoshi ^a   Murashima, K ^a   Shigematsu, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airway: difficult; Complications: epidermolysis bullosa; Intubation: tracheal, fibreoptic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COOPERATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA DYSTROPHICA; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA DYSTROPHICA; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE;

EID: 0031935396     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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