Acid aspiration prophylaxis and caesarean section

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 261-265

  Schneck, Hajo ^b   Scheller, Michaela ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Anasthesieabteilung der Kreisklinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; ATROPINE; CITRATE SODIUM; ERYTHROMYCIN; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; METOCLOPRAMIDE; OPIATE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; RANITIDINE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CESAREAN SECTION; CRICOID; DEATH; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTUBATION; MORTALITY; OXYGENATION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH PH; STOMACH VOLUME; VOMITING;

EID: 0034129721     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-200006000-00004     Document Type: Article

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