Challenging airways in deep neck space infections

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 415-418

  Karkos, Peter D ^a   Leong, Samuel C ^a   Beer, Helen ^a   Apostolidou, Maria T ^b   Panarese, Alessandro ^a  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; SEVOFLURANE;

AIRWAY; ANATOMY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEEP NECK SPACE INFECTION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUDWIG ANGINA; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEBULIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEOTOMY;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; NECK; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS;

EID: 35548972128     PISSN: 01960709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2006.10.012     Document Type: Article

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