Clinical review: Post-extubation laryngeal edema and extubation failure in critically ill adult patients

Critical Care

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Wittekamp, Bastiaan H J ^a   van Mook, Walther N K A ^b   Tjan, Dave H T ^a   Zwaveling, Jan H ^b   Bergmans, Dennis C J J ^b  

^a GELDERSE VALLEI HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOCORTICOID; HELIUM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXTUBATION; HUMAN; LARYNX; LARYNX EDEMA; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; ADULT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEVICE REMOVAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX DISORDER; TRACHEA DISEASE;

ADULT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEVICE REMOVAL; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL DISEASES; LARYNGEAL EDEMA; LARYNGOSCOPY; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK FACTORS; TRACHEAL DISEASES;

EID: 77951638369     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc8142     Document Type: Review

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