Airway injury during emergency transcutaneous airway access: A comparison at cricothyroid and tracheal sites

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1901-1907

  Salah, Nazar ^a   El Saigh, Ismat ^a   Hayes, Niamh ^a   McCaul, Conan ^a  

^a ROTUNDA HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIST; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANNULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICOID; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXCISION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALPEL; SWINE; THYROID GLAND; TRACHEA; TROCAR;

EID: 73949144673     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181bdd1ba     Document Type: Article

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