Aspiration during anaesthesia: A review of 133 cases from the Australian Anaesthetic Incident Monitoring Study (AIMS)

Anaesthesia

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-26

  Kluger, M T ^a   Short, T G ^b  

^a NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Complications, aspiration

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; AUSTRALIA; DATA BASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROPHYLAXIS; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHESIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; RISK FACTORS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 0032961036     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1999.00642.x     Document Type: Article

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