The effects of two endotracheal tube cuff inflation pressures on liquid aspiration and tracheal wall damage in horses

Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-29

  Touzot Jourde, Gwenola ^a,b   Stedman, Nancy L ^a   Trim, Cynthia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspiration; Cuff pressure; Endotracheal intubation; Horse; Tracheal damage

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HORSE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRACHEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HORSES; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRACHEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 14944350392     PISSN: 14672987     EISSN: 14672995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2995.2004.00170.x     Document Type: Article

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