A comparative study of endotracheal tube positioning methods in children: Safety from neck movement

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 620-625

  Yoo, Seung Yeon ^a   Kim, Jin Hee ^a,b   Han, Sung Hee ^a,b   Oh, Ah Young ^b  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; BODY POSITION; BRONCHUS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOBRONCHIAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG AUSCULTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNUM; TRACHEA; VOCAL CORD;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; AUSCULTATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHEST TUBES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; NECK MUSCLES; PALPATION; POSTURE; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; TRACHEA;

EID: 34548129632     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000278149.66027.0b     Document Type: Article

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