Awake fibrecapnic intubation: A novel technique for intubation in head and neck cancer patients with a difficult airway

Anaesthesia

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 449-452

  Huitink, J M ^a   Buitelaar, D R ^a   Schutte, P F E ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CAPNOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FIBEROSCOPE; GLOTTIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; MANDIBLE RESECTION; MAXILLA CANCER; MAXILLA RESECTION; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NECK DISSECTION; ORAL SURGERY; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PAROTID GLAND TUMOR; PAROTIDECTOMY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PHARYNX; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SUCTION; THORACOTOMY; TIME; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TRACHEA INJURY; TRACHEAL HEMORRHAGE; VOCAL CORD; WAKEFULNESS;

AGED; CAPNOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33645771472     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04586.x     Document Type: Article

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