Confirming tracheal cannulation during percutaneous tracheostomy without endoscopic guidance

Anaesthesia

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1027-1028

  Honan, D ^a   Malkan, D ^a   Tierney, E ^a  

^a WEXFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ATRACURIUM; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; OXYGEN; SEVOFLURANE;

ADULT; ASPIRATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANNULATION; CASE REPORT; ENDOSCOPY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFUSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; LETTER; LUNG VENTILATION; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SAFETY; SEDATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEA DISEASE; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; METHYL ETHERS; TRACHEA; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 0141887020     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2003.03415_7.x     Document Type: Letter

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