Urgent awake tracheotomy for impending airway obstruction

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 838-842

  Yuen, Heng Wai ^a   Loy, Andrew Heng Chian ^a   Johari, Shirish ^a  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; AWAKE TRACHEOTOMY; BLEEDING; CHEST INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LARYNX EDEMA; LARYNX GRANULOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD; PNEUMOTHORAX; SAFE SEX; STRIDOR; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRACHEOTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; WAKEFULNESS; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRACHEOTOMY; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 34247648732     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2006.12.012     Document Type: Article

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