Strategies for prophylaxis and treatment for aspiration

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 719-737

  Kalinowski, Christopher Peter Henry ^a   Kirsch, Jeffery Robert ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspiration; Carbohydrate enriched fluids; Chemoprophylaxis; Cricoid pressure; Fibre optic intubation; Preoperative fasting; Rapid sequence induction

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATROPINE; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CISAPRIDE; CITRATE DISODIUM; CITRATE SODIUM; CLARITHROMYCIN; CYSTEINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; INOTROPIC AGENT; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MOSAPRIDE CITRATE; NALOXONE; OXYGEN; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; PRUCALOPRIDE; STEROID; SUCRALFATE; TEGASEROD;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CONSCIOUSNESS; CRICOID; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BINDING; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FIBER OPTICS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; INTESTINE MOTILITY; LARYNGOSCOPY; LUNG ASPIRATION; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG INJURY; OBESITY; OXYGEN TENSION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH ACID; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH PH;

EID: 4344663744     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2004.05.008     Document Type: Article

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