Role of ultrasound in the airway management of critically ill patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Šustić, Alan ^a  

^a KBC RIJEKA   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Airway management; Double lumen tube; Endotracheal tube; Intensive care unit; Percutaneous tracheostomy; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BREATHING MUSCLE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXTUBATION; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; LUNG VENTILATION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; TRACHEA; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRACHEOTOMY; ULTRASOUND; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; TRACHEOSTOMY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34247347848     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000260628.88402.8A     Document Type: Review

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