An assessment of a method of inflating cuffs with a nitrous oxide gas mixture to prevent an increase in intracuff pressure in five different tracheal tube designs

Anaesthesia

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 155-159

  Karasawa, F ^a   Tokunaga, M ^b   Aramaki, Y ^b   Shizukuishi, M ^b   Satoh, T ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Department of Anaesthesiology ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaesthetics, gases: nitrous oxide; Equipment: cuffs; tracheal; Intubation, tracheal: technique

Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; BALLOON; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; GAS MIXING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIFFUSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; NITROUS OXIDE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035117666     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2001.01792.x     Document Type: Article

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