A simple method to control tracheal cuff pressure in anaesthesia and in air evacuation

Anaesthesia

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 975-980

  Yoneda, I ^a   Watanabe, K ^a   Hayashida, S ^b   Kanno, M ^b   Sato, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Self Defense Forces Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complications; cuff pressure; Equipment; tracheal tube

Indexed keywords

LATEX; VINYL DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CLAMP; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; FLIGHT; HUMAN; MALE; PRESSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYMPTOM; THROAT;

ADULT; AGED; AIR; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PHARYNGITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESSURE;

EID: 0032883660     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1999.01008.x     Document Type: Article

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