Case series: Protection from aspiration and failure of protection from aspiration with the i-gel airway

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 415-417

  Gibbison, B ^a   Cook, T M ^a   Seller, C ^a  

^a ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airway; Airway, complications; Aspiration, equipment

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; PROPOFOL; SUXAMETHONIUM; ELASTOMER;

ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CASE REPORT; DEVICE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CONTENT; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LARYNGEAL MASK;

DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; ELASTOMERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION;

EID: 40949114936     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aem396     Document Type: Article

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