Anaesthetic management for the child with a mediastinal mass

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-97

  Hammer, Gregory B ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Anaesthesia management; Anterior mediastinal mass; Child; Preoperative evaluation

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT;

AIRWAY; ALGORITHM; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FACE MASK; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LUNG COLLAPSE; LUNG FLOW VOLUME CURVE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MEDIASTINUM MASS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK;

ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIA; CHILD; HUMANS; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0842308726     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.01196.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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