Utility of airway exchange catheters in pediatric patients with a known difficult airway

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 454-456

  Wise Faberowski, Lisa ^a   Nargozian, Charles ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway devices; Cook airway exchange catheter; Extubation; Intensive care unit; Tube exchanger

Indexed keywords

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; ADOLESCENT; AIRWAY EXCHANGE CATHETER; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CATHETER; CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROUZON SYNDROME; DEVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EWING SARCOMA; EXTUBATION; FACE BURN; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INFANT; KLIPPEL FEIL SYNDROME; MANDIBULOFACIAL DYSOSTOSIS; MIDFACE HYPOPLASIA; NEWBORN; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PALATOPLASTY; PIERRE ROBIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; SMITH LEMLI OPITZ SYNDROME; STICKLER SYNDROME; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR ANKYLOSIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 22144445654     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000163739.82584.C6     Document Type: Article

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