A case report of difficult ventilation with the Combitube(TM) - Valve-like upper airway obstruction confirmed by fibreoptic visualisation

Resuscitation

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 71-74

  Jaehnichen, Gunnar ^a   Golecki, Nikolaus ^a   Lipp, Markus D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airway management; Airway obstruction; Combitube(TM); Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ESOPHAGUS TUBE; FACE MASK; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGOSCOPY; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0034160050     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(99)00162-8     Document Type: Article

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