Tongues, tubes, and teens: Body piercing and airway management

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 755-758

  DeBoer, Scott ^a,b   McNeil, Michelle ^c   Amundson, Troy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Peds R Us Medical Education   (United States)

^c BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Apocalypse Piercing   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway management; Body piercing; Jewelry; Nasal oral intubation

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; AIRWAY; BLEEDING; BODY PIERCING; EMERGENCY CARE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTUBATION; JEWELRY; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX SPASM; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; ORAL SURGERY; REVIEW; TONGUE;

ADULT; BODY PIERCING; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFECTION; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; NOSE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; TONGUE;

EID: 33750261141     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pec.0000238739.06909.13     Document Type: Review

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