Laryngeal mask airway and tracheal tube cuff pressures in children: Are clinical endpoints valuable for guiding inflation?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 738-744

  Ong, M ^a   Chambers, N A ^a   Hullet, B ^a   Erb, T O ^b   Von Ungern Sternberg, B S ^a,c  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; HYPERINFLATION; INFANT; LARYNGEAL MASK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANUAL VENTILATION; PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR PRESSURE; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NITROUS OXIDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 44949248131     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05486.x     Document Type: Article

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