Chemical Burn Injury Secondary to Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1260-1261

  Venticinque, Steven G ^a   Kashyap, Vikram S ^a   O'Connell, Robert J ^a,b  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b 759MDOS/MMII ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; GLUTARALDEHYDE; LIDOCAINE; NYSTATIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMICAL BURN; DISINFECTION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142150294     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000083641.58267.0C     Document Type: Article

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