Pharyngolaryngeal morbidity with the laryngeal mask airway in spontaneously breathing patients: Does size matter?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 760-766

  Grady, Deirdre M ^a   McHardy, Fiona ^a   Wong, Jean ^a   Jin, Fengling ^a   Tong, Doris ^a   Chung, Frances ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRONCHOSPASM; COUGHING; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNX SPASM; MALE; MORBIDITY; NAUSEA; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SORE THROAT; VOMITING;

EID: 0035003047     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200105000-00012     Document Type: Article

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