Investigating the failure to aspirate subglottic secretions with the evac endotracheal tube

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1083-1085

  Dragoumanis, Christos K ^a   Vretzakis, George I ^b   Papaioannou, Vassilios E ^a   Didilis, Vassilios N ^a   Vogiatzaki, Theodsia D ^a   Pneumatikos, Ioannis A ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BRONCHOSCOPE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; INTUBATION; MALE; MUCUS SECRETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUCTION DRAINAGE; TRACHEA MUCOSA; TRACHEA MUCUS;

AGED; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; SUCTION; TRACHEA;

EID: 34748857987     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000278155.19911.67     Document Type: Article

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