Cuffed tracheal tubes in children - Things have changed

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1005-1007

  Weiss, Markus ^a   Gerber, Andreas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY PRESSURE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CAPNOGRAPHY; CHILD; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; LARYNX INJURY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; OXYGENATION; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CHILD; CRICOID CARTILAGE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; TRACHEA;

EID: 33748753137     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2006.02071.x     Document Type: Editorial

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