Clinical experience of airway management and tracheal intubation under general anesthesia in patients with scar contracture of the neck

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 989-997

  Xue, Fu Shan ^a,b   Liao, Xu ^a   Li, Cheng Wen ^a   Xu, Ya Chao ^a   Yang, Quan Yong ^a   Liu, Yi ^a   Liu, Jian Hua ^a   Luo, Mao Ping ^a   Zhang, Yan Ming ^a  

^a PLASTIC SURGERY HOSPITAL   (China)

^b XINXIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Airway management; Difficult intubation; General anesthesia; Limitation of head extension; Scar contracture of the neck

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BREATHING; BURN CONTRACTURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INCIDENCE; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX SPASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NECK; PLASTIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; CONTRACTURE; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, INTRAVENOUS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CICATRIX; CONTRACTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 50549101555     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00029330-200806010-00006     Document Type: Article

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