A comparison of sex- and weight-based ProSeal™ laryngeal mask size selection criteria: A randomized study of healthy anesthetized, paralyzed adult patients

Anesthesiology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 340-343

  Kihara, Shinichi ^a,b   Brimacombe, Joseph R ^c,d   Yaguchi, Yuichi ^a   Taguchi, Noriko ^a   Watanabe, Seiji ^a  

^a Mito Saiseikai General Hospital   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CAIRNS BASE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY WEIGHT; BREATHING APPARATUS; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAS EXCHANGE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LARYNGEAL MASK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERIALS; OROPHARYNX; PARALYSIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR PRESSURE; ALGORITHMS; BODY WEIGHT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGEAL MUCOSA; LARYNX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTURE; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 3342967581     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200408000-00014     Document Type: Article

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