Transesophageal echocardiography induced airway obstruction in a patient in whom the trachea had been intubated via a LMA Ctrach™

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1357-

  Kamath, Sriganesh ^a   Chatterjee, Nilay ^a   Acharya, Suparna ^a   Singha, Subrata Kumar ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR EMBOLISM; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN EMBOLISM; BODY POSTURE; MENINGIOMA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT MONITORING;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; POSTURE;

EID: 63849194847     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318196add2     Document Type: Letter

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