Subcutaneous cervical and facial emphysema with the use of the Bonfils fiberscope and high-flow oxygen insufflation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 260-262

  Hemmerling, Thomas M ^a   Bracco, David ^a  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FACE; FEMALE; FIBEROSCOPE; HUMAN; MUCOSAL DISEASE; OXYGEN THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; TOOTH;

AGED; ENDOSCOPES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FACE; FEMALE; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; INSUFFLATION; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; NECK; OXYGEN; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA;

EID: 37549032117     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000287661.81400.cb     Document Type: Article

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