The use of nasopharyngeal airways for airway diversion in anterior craniofacial resection

American Journal of Rhinology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 529-532

  Lewis, Carol M ^a,b   Lin, Derrick T ^a,b   Curry Jr , William T ^b,c   Barker II, Fred G ^b,c   Deschler, Daniel G ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway diversion; Complication; Craniofacial resection; Morbidity; Nasal trumpet; Nasopharyngeal airway; Retrospective; Tension pneumocephalus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CRANIOFACIAL RESECTION; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIPHORA; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; FEVER; FISTULA; GRAFT FAILURE; HEADACHE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; MUCOCELE; NASOPHARYNX; PARANASAL SINUS CANCER; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SINOFACIAL FISTULA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VISUAL DISORDER; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FACE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRACHEOTOMY;

EID: 53549100459     PISSN: 10506586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2500/ajr.2008.22.3219     Document Type: Article

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