Prophylactic dexamethasone decreases the incidence of sore throat and hoarseness after tracheal extubation with a double-lumen endobronchial tube

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1814-1818

  Park, Sang Hyun ^a   Han, Sung Hee ^a   Do, Sang Hwan ^a   Kim, Jung Won ^b   Rhee, Ka Young ^c   Kim, Jin Hee ^a  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Konkuk University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; DEXAMETHASONE; FENTANYL; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; KETOROLAC; KETOROLAC TROMETAMOL; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; PLACEBO; PROPOFOL; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; ROCURONIUM; ROPIVACAINE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DOUBLE LUMEN TUBE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GLOTTIS; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SORE THROAT; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; DEXAMETHASONE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 58149308248     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318185d093     Document Type: Article

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