Case report: Severe laryngeal hemorrhage after withdrawal of a size 5 I-gel in elective surgery

Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 255-257

  Dangelser, Gaétan ^a   Dincq, A S ^a   Lawson, G ^a   Collard, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF MONT GODINNE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE; SUFENTANIL;

AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EPIGLOTTIS; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNX INJURY; MALE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STEROID THERAPY; SUPRAGLOTTIC AIRWAY DEVICE; SURGICAL RISK; URETER STENT; UROLOGIC SURGERY; USUAL INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; MALE; OPTICAL FIBERS; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; STENTS; URETER; URETERAL DISEASES;

EID: 77749295244     PISSN: 00015164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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