Nerve damage following the use of an i-gel supraglottic airway device

Anaesthesia

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 441-

  Theron, A D ^a   Loyden, C ^a  

^a WEST WALES GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; BREATHING APPARATUS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFERIOR ALVEOLAR NERVE; LETTER; MENTAL NERVE INJURY; NERVE INJURY; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PARESTHESIA; RISK FACTOR; SUPRAGLOTTIC AIRWAY DEVICE; SYMPTOM; ULCER;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LIP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 40549143462     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05507_1.x     Document Type: Letter

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