Morbidly obese patient with a huge ovarian tumor who was intubated awake using airway scope in lateral decubitus position

Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 625-628

  Shinohara, Hiromi ^a   Ishii, Hisanari ^a   Kakuyama, Masahiro ^a   Fukuda, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Awake intubation; Morbid obesity; Pentax AWS airway scope

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; MIDAZOLAM; SEVOFLURANE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTUBATION; LATERAL DECUBITUS POSITION; LUNG EDEMA; MORBID OBESITY; OVARY TUMOR; POSITION; SEDATION; SHOCK; SUPINE POSITION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR VOLUME; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; METHYL ETHERS; OBESITY, MORBID; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; SUPINE POSITION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 77952864999     PISSN: 00214892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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