Fibreoptic equipment and prion disease

Anaesthesia

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 90-91

  Dombrovski, A ^a   Popat, M ^a   Farmery, A ^a  

^a NuYeld Department of Surgery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; GROWTH HORMONE;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANAMNESIS; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; DROWSINESS; EDEMA; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FACE MASK; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; FIBEROSCOPE; HEMATOMA; HEMODIALYSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; INCINERATION; INFECTION RISK; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; NECK TUMOR; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRION DISEASE; PROGNATHIA; STRIDOR; TACHYPNEA; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

ADULT; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; CROSS INFECTION; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL;

EID: 0037237385     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2003.29687.x     Document Type: Letter

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