Ultrasound-guided bilateral superior laryngeal nerve block to aid awake endotracheal intubation in a patient with cervical spine disease for emergency surgery

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 946-948

  Manikandan, S ^a   Neema, P K ^a   Rathod, R C ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Awake intubation; Superior laryngeal nerve block; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL DISLOCATION; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; SUPERIOR LARYNGEAL NERVE; WAKEFULNESS; CERVICAL SPINE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FIBER OPTICS; LARYNGEAL NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SPINAL DISEASES;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; SPINAL DISEASES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 77956473000     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: 14480271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x1003800523     Document Type: Article

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