Detection of oesophageal intubations using cuff pressures in a pig trachea-oesophagus model

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 740-743

  Lin, H J ^a,c   Chen, K T ^a   Foo, N P ^a   Hsu, C C ^a   Guo, H R ^b  

^a CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Airway; Airway, intubation, cuff pressure; Complications, intubation tracheal; Equipment, tubes tracheal; Oesophageal intubation

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EQUIPMENT; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; ESOPHAGUS; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOREIGN BODY; MANOMETRY; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESOPHAGUS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FOREIGN BODIES; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MANOMETRY; PRESSURE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 38449086688     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aem244     Document Type: Article

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