Tongue Engorgement Associated With Prolonged Use of the King-LT Laryngeal Tube Device

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 367-369

  Gaither, Joshua B ^a   Matheson, Jessica ^a   Eberhardt, Aaron ^a   Colwell, Christopher B ^a  

^a Denver Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; FAMOTIDINE; STEROID;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; AGED; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; CAPNOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KING-LT LARYNGEAL TUBE DEVICE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONGUE DISEASE; TONGUE ENGORGEMENT; TONGUE SWELLING; TUBE REMOVAL; VEIN OCCLUSION;

AGED; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TONGUE DISEASES;

EID: 77949873137     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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