Increased incidence of emergency airway management after combined anterior-posterior cervical spine surgery

Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 282-286

  Terao, Yoshiaki ^a   Matsumoto, Shuhei ^a   Yamashita, Kazunori ^a   Takada, Masafumi ^a   Inadomi, Chiaki ^a   Fukusaki, Makoto ^a   Sumikawa, Koji ^b  

^a NAGASAKI ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airway management; Anterior posterior fusion; Cervical spine surgery; Emergency intubation; Prophylactic intubation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL DISLOCATION; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIRST AID; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JOINT SURGERY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CLEARANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE SURGERY; SPONDYLITIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SPINE;

EID: 5044229133     PISSN: 08984921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008506-200410000-00004     Document Type: Article

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