Niemann-Pick disease: A rare problem in anaesthesiological practice

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 806-808

  Bujok, Lilianna Szuba ^a   Bujok, Grzegorz ^a,b   Knapik, Piotr ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b Silesian University Medical School in Zabrze   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Difficult intubation; Niemann Pick disease

Indexed keywords

ATRACURIUM; SEVOFLURANE;

ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; AUSCULTATION; BODY POSITION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; LARYNGOSCOPE; MALE; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TIDAL VOLUME;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; NIEMANN-PICK DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTURE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0036932577     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.00922.x     Document Type: Article

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