Complications of flexible bronchoscopy

Clinical Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 177-183

  Gorman, Stephen R ^a   Beamis Jr , John F ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Bleeding; Bronchoscopy; Complications; Fever; Hypoxemia; Methemoglobinemia; Pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

BENZOCAINE; LIDOCAINE;

BRONCHOSCOPY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FEVER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; MORTALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PNEUMOTHORAX; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT HEMORRHAGE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW;

EID: 18844419277     PISSN: 10680640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.cpm.0000163389.26044.3f     Document Type: Review

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