Recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy after anterior cervical spine surgery: The impact of endotracheal tube cuff deflation, reinflation, and pressure adjustment

Anesthesiology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 898-901

  Audu, Paul ^a   Artz, Greg ^a   Scheid, Sarah ^a   Harrop, James ^a   Albert, Todd ^a   Vaccaro, Alexander ^a   Hilibrand, Alan ^a   Sharan, Ashwini ^a   Spiegal, Joseph ^a   Rosen, Marc ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; ROCURONIUM; SUFENTANIL; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL CUFF; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL NERVE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NERVE PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN INCISION; SPINE SURGERY; VIDEORECORDING; VOCAL CORD;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 33750489066     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200611000-00009     Document Type: Article

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