The feasibility of ultrasound to assess subglottic diameter

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 611-614

  Lakhal, Karim ^a,b   Delplace, Xavier ^a   Cottier, Jean Philippe ^a   Tranquart, François ^a   Sauvagnac, Xavier ^a   Mercier, Colette ^a   Fusciardi, Jacques ^a   Laffon, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TOURS   (France)

^b BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CRICOID; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNX MUSCLE; LARYNX STENOSIS; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT MUCOSA; STRIDOR; TRACHEA MUCOSA;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSTENOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TRACHEA; TRACHEAL STENOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33847214182     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000260136.53694.fe     Document Type: Article

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