Determination of the site of tracheal tube impingement during nasotracheal fibreoptic intubation

Anaesthesia

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 646-650

  Marfin, A G ^a   Iqbal, R ^a   Mihm, F ^b   Popat, M T ^a   Scott, S H ^a   Pandit, Jai J ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRACURIUM; FENTANYL; ISOFLURANE; MIDAZOLAM; OXYGEN; PROPOFOL; XYLOMETAZOLINE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FIBEROSCOPE; HUMAN; LARYNX CARTILAGE; LARYNX STENOSIS; MALE; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARYTENOID CARTILAGE; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; ROTATION; TRACHEA; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33745017432     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04652.x     Document Type: Article

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