Unanticipated difficult endotracheal intubations in patients with cervical spine instrumentation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 960-963

  Schoenhage, Kai O ^a   Koenig, Heidi M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOCAINE; CETACAINE; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; TETRACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; REOPERATION; SEDATION; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; TECHNIQUE; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 33644531273     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000194446.18696.eb     Document Type: Article

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