The Parker Flex-TipTM tube for nasotracheal intubation: The influence on nasal mucosal trauma

Anaesthesia

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 8-11

  Sanuki, Takuro ^a   Hirokane, M ^a   Matsuda, Y ^a   Sugioka, S ^a   Kotani, J ^a  

^a OSAKA DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; NOSE INJURY; NOSE MUCOSA; ORAL SURGERY; PAIN; SURGICAL APPROACH; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; EPISTAXIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL MUCOSA; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71949130681     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2009.06123.x     Document Type: Article

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