Does efficacy of seal and fibreoptic view change during anaesthesia with the laryngeal mask airway: A comparison of oxygen and oxygen-nitrous oxide gas mixtures

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1258-1260

  Brimacombe, J ^a,c   Keller, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c CAIRNS BASE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Fiberoptic position; Intracuff pressure; Laryngeal mask airway; Nitrous oxide; Oropharyngeal leak pressure

Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SEVOFLURANE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBER OPTICS; GAS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; LARYNGEAL MASK; MALE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PRESSURE;

EID: 0033784674     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-6576.2000.441012.x     Document Type: Article

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