Airway complications associated with surgery on the anterior cervical spine

Spine

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 949-953

  Sagi, H Claude ^a   Beutler, William ^a   Carroll, Eben ^a   Connolly, Patrick J ^a  

^a University Medical Center Fresno   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway; Anterior cervical surgery; Complications; Respiratory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLEEDING; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PHARYNX DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SPINE SURGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BODY MASS INDEX; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COMORBIDITY; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINE; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 0036570528     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200205010-00013     Document Type: Article

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