Operating room fires: Optimizing safety

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1701-1708

  Meneghetti, Silvia Cristina ^a   Morgan, Mark M ^a   Fritz, Janet ^a   Borkowski, Raymond G ^a   Djohan, Risal ^a   Zins, James E ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; FACE SURGERY; FIRE; FIRE PROTECTION; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETER; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; OPERATING ROOM; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN DELIVERY DEVICE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT; TUBE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FACE; INSTRUMENTATION; INTUBATION; METHODOLOGY; NOSE; PLASTIC SURGERY; SAFETY;

COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FACE; FIRES; HUMANS; INTUBATION; NOSE; OPERATING ROOMS; OXYGEN; PHARYNX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SAFETY;

EID: 38449104263     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000282729.23202.da     Document Type: Article

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