New developments in the management of the paediatric airway: Cuffed or uncuffed tracheal tubes, laryngeal mask airway, cuffed oropharyngeal airway, tracheostomy and one-lung ventilation devices

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 315-320

  Veyckemans, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE;

ASSISTED VENTILATION; CUFF; DEVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LUNG COMPLIANCE; OROPHARYNX; PHARYNX; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEAL; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 0032726312     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-199906000-00010     Document Type: Review

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