Optimally fitted tracheal tubes decrease the probability of postextubation adverse events in children undergoing general anesthesia

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 641-647

  Suominen, Pertti ^a   Taivainen, Tomi ^a   Tuominen, Netta ^a   Voipio, Ville ^a   Wirtavuori, Kari ^a   Hiller, Arja ^a   Korpela, Reijo ^a   Karjalainen, Tiina ^a   Meretoja, Olli ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Airway edema: adverse events; Intubation: air leak test

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COUGHING; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LARYNX SPASM; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; TUBE REMOVAL;

AIR PRESSURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL EDEMA; MALE; MANOMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33744493104     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2005.01832.x     Document Type: Article

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