Airway management for adult patients with acute epiglottitis: A 12-year experience at an academic medical center (1984-1995)

Anesthesiology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 254-261

  Park, Kyung W ^a   Darvish, Amir ^b   Lowenstein, Edward ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Difficult intubation; Endotracheal intubation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE EPIGLOTTITIS; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EPIGLOTTITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031972730     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199801000-00034     Document Type: Article

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