Potential disaster in airway management: A misguided airway exchange catheter via a hole bitten into a univent endotracheal tube

Anesthesiology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1266-1268

  Eisenach, John H ^b   Barnes, Roxann D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BOUGIE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; GAS EXCHANGE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0036237792     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200205000-00035     Document Type: Article

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