A Silicone-Based Wire-Reinforced Tracheal Tube with a Hemispherical Bevel Reduces Nasal Morbidity for Nasotracheal Intubation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1488-1491

  Kihara, Shinichi ^a   Komatsuzaki, Tetsuya ^a   Brimacombe, Joseph R ^b   Yaguchi, Yuichi ^a   Taguchi, Noriko ^a   Watanabe, Seiji ^a  

^a Mito Saiseikai General Hospital   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYVINYLCHLORIDE; SILICONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; NASOTRACHEAL TUBE; NOSE AIRFLOW; NOSE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 0142181242     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000082244.93210.2F     Document Type: Article

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