Quality improvement in anesthetic practice - Incidence of sore throat after using small tracheal tube

Middle East Journal of Anesthesiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 179-183

  Al Qahtani, Ali S ^a   Messahel, Farouk M ^a,b  

^a Armed Forces Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Dept of Anesth and Intensive Care ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMON COLD; ENDOSCOPY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTUBATION; MALE; NOSE SURGERY; PARANASAL SINUS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SORE THROAT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TONSILLECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 15944380800     PISSN: 05440440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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