Awake fibrecapnic intubation in head and neck cancer patients with difficult airways: New findings and refinements to the technique

Anaesthesia

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 214-219

  Huitink, J M ^a   Balm, A J M ^a,b   Keijzer, C ^a   Buitelaar, D R ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; AWAKE FIBERCAPNIC INTUBATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CAPNOGRAPHY; CATHETERIZATION; CIRCULATION TIME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TUMOR BLEEDING; BRONCHOSCOPE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; TIME;

AGED; BRONCHOSCOPES; CAPNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34047143161     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04947.x     Document Type: Article

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