A rapidly enlarging neck mass: The role of the sitting position in fiberoptic bronchoscopy for difficult intubation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1627-1629

  Dabbagh, Ali ^a   Mobasseri, Naseraddin ^a   Elyasi, Hedayatollah ^a   Gharaei, Babak ^a   Fathololumi, Mohammadreza ^a   Ghasemi, Mahshid ^a   Chamkhale, Iman Bandarchi ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRONCHOSCOPE; CASE REPORT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; THYROID CARCINOMA; TRACHEOSTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME; ADENOCARCINOMA; BODY POSTURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; DISEASE COURSE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; HISTOLOGY; INTUBATION; METHODOLOGY; NECK; PATHOLOGY; STANDARD; SUPINE POSITION; THYROID TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADULT; BRONCHOSCOPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION; NECK; POSTURE; SUPINE POSITION; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56149119258     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318184f825     Document Type: Article

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