The endotracheal tube cuff-leak test as a predictor for postextubation stridor

Respiratory Care

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1632-1638

  Kriner, Eric J ^a   Shafazand, Shirin ^a,b   Colice, Gene L ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway obstruction; Endotracheal tube cuff; Extubation failure; Laryngeal edema; Stridor; Tracheal intubation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF LEAK TEST; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRIDOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; AGED; INSTRUMENTATION; LARYNX; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TIDAL VOLUME; TIME;

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; TIDAL VOLUME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33644874217     PISSN: 00201324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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