The addition of a brief ultrasound examination to clinical assessment increases the ability to confirm placement of double-lumen endotracheal tubes

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 246-249

  Šustić, Alan ^a   Protić, Alen ^a   Cicvarić, Tedi ^a   Župan, Željko ^a  

^a KBC RIJEKA   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Double lumen endobronchial tube; Endobronchial intubation; One lung ventilation; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE LUMEN TUBE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX WALL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA; BRONCHI; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LUNG COMPLIANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TRACHEA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952869179     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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