Successful emergent reintubation using the Aintree intubation catheter and a laryngeal mask airway

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 148-150

  Farag, E ^a   Bhandary, S ^a   Deungria, M ^a   Zura, A ^a   Seif, J ^a   Borkowski, R ^a   Doyle, D John ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheters, indwelling; Intubation; Laryngeal masks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MACROGLOSSIA; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TONGUE DISEASE;

BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MIDDLE AGED; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77249136399     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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