Use of the laryngeal mask airway in combination with regional anesthesia facilitates induction and emergence from general anesthesia in patients undergoing colorectal surgery

Hiroshima Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 89-92

  Azma, Toshiharu ^a,b   Kawai, Kazumi ^a   Okida, Motoichi ^a   Okada, Kuniko ^a   Tamura, Hideki ^a  

^a Hiroshima Red Cross ^*  (Japan)

^b Hiroshima General Hospital ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Anesthesia recovery period; Colorectal surgery; Laryngeal mask airway

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; MALE; OPERATING ROOM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036989667     PISSN: 00182052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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