Continuous airway access for the difficult extubation: The efficacy of the airway exchange catheter

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1357-1362

  Mort, Thomas C ^a,b  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; AIRWAY EXCHANGE CATHETER; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTUBATION; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INDWELLING CATHETER; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNX EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37349127317     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000282826.68646.a1     Document Type: Article

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