An unexpected difficult laryngoscopy

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 645-648

  De Beer, D A H ^a   Williams, D G ^a   Mackersie, A ^a  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Difficult laryngoscopy; Laryngeal mask airway; Temporalis muscle contracture

Indexed keywords

ATRACURIUM; ATROPINE; BACLOFEN; MEROPENEM; MIDAZOLAM; NEOSTIGMINE; NITROUS OXIDE; SEVOFLURANE; THIOPENTAL; VANCOMYCIN;

ANAMNESIS; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DRAIN; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPILEPTIC STATE; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; JAW MUSCLE; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; MOUTH; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SHUNT INFECTION; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE;

ANESTHESIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; TEMPORAL MUSCLE; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 0036409368     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.00857.x     Document Type: Article

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