Management of pulmonary aspiration

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 409-427

  Janda, Matthias ^a   Scheeren, Thomas W L ^a   Nöldge Schomburg, Gabriele F E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

aspiration pneumonia; aspiration pneumonitis; cricoid pressure; crisis management; pulmonary aspiration; rapid sequence induction; treatment of aspiration

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ENFLURANE; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; MIDAZOLAM; PENICILLIN G; PENTOXIFYLLINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SALBUTAMOL; SUXAMETHONIUM; THEOPHYLLINE; THIOPENTAL; THYMOQUINONE;

ALGORITHM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BRONCHOSPASM; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CRICOID; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENTEROBACTER; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KLEBSIELLA; MORBIDITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STOMACH CONTENT; SUPERINFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ACUPRESSURE; DRUG THERAPY; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 33748253459     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2006.02.006     Document Type: Review

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