Twenty months' routine use of a new percutaneous tracheostomy set using controlled rotating dilation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 188-192

  Sengupta, Neel ^a   Ang, Keng Leong ^a   Prakash, Doraiswamy ^a   Ng, Vivien ^a   George, Shane J ^a  

^a HAREFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONSULTATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESIDENT; TRACHEOSTOMY; TUBE;

EID: 3042519340     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000116925.11961.56     Document Type: Article

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