Crisis resource management of the airway in a patient with klippel-feil syndrome, congenital deafness, and aortic dissection

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1220-1225

  Khawaja, Omar M ^a   Reed, J Taylor ^a   Shaefi, Shahzad ^a   Chitilian, Hovig V ^a   Sandberg, Warren S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESMOLOL; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM; GLASS FIBER;

ADULT; AIRWAY; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; FIBER OPTICS; HUMAN; INTUBATION; KLIPPEL FEIL SYNDROME; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ALGORITHM; ANXIETY; AORTA ANEURYSM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRONCHOSCOPE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CERVICAL SPINE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT MONITORING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANXIETY; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRONCHOSCOPES; BRONCHOSCOPY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DEAFNESS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; KLIPPEL-FEIL SYNDROME; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; OPTICAL FIBERS; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT CARE TEAM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 63849182590     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181957d9b     Document Type: Article

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