The efficacy of pharyngeal packing during routine nasal surgery - A prospective randomised controlled study

Anaesthesia

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1161-1165

  Basha, S I ^a   McCoy, E ^a   Ullah, R ^a   Kinsella, J B ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; NITROUS OXIDE; ONDANSETRON; OXYGEN; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SEVOFLURANE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATHERMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GAUZE DRESSING; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOSE RECONSTRUCTION; NOSE SEPTUM RECONSTRUCTION; NOSE SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHARYNX; POLYPECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SORE THROAT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PHARYNGITIS; PHARYNX; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAMPONS, SURGICAL;

EID: 33750729579     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04868.x     Document Type: Article

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