An Unusual Cause of Airway Obstruction during General Anesthesia with a Laryngeal Mask Airway

Anesthesiology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1017-1018

  Bernards, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LARYNGEAL MASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VOCAL CORD;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MIDDLE AGED; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 1642361513     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200404000-00037     Document Type: Article

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