Transtracheal lignocaine: Effective treatment for postextubation stridor

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 128-131

  Lewis, K E ^a,b  

^a SYDNEY ADVENTIST HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SEVOFLURANE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTUBATION; FACE MASK; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX SPASM; MALE; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; NOSE SURGERY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; STRIDOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGISMUS; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS;

EID: 33847344785     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0703500122     Document Type: Article

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