The Sengstaken-Blakemore tube: Uses and abuses

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Seet, Edwin ^a   Beevee, S ^a   Cheng, A ^a   Lim, E ^a  

^a ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Airway obstruction; Aortoesophageal fistula; Bronchoesophageal fistula; Sengstaken Blakemore tube

Indexed keywords

ENBUCRILATE; FIBRIN GLUE;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY PRESSURE; AORTOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUSCULTATION; BALLOON; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUODENUM ULCER; ENDOBRONCHIAL INTUBATION; ESOPHAGOBRONCHIAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS TUBE; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; LAPAROTOMY; NECROSIS; PNEUMONIA; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEPSIS; STENT; TIDAL VOLUME;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AORTA, THORACIC; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGOSCOPES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSCOPES; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 51349109617     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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