Anesthesia for Pediatric Airway Surgery: Recommendations and Review from a Pediatric Referral Center

Anesthesiology Clinics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 505-517

  Collins, Corey E ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway surgery; Anesthesia risk; Laryngotracheal reconstruction; Pediatric anesthesia; Spontaneous ventilation anesthesia; Tracheostomy

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; DEXAMETHASONE; KETAMINE; KETOROLAC; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORPHINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; ONDANSETRON; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; SEDATIVE AGENT; SEVOFLURANE;

ADENOTONSILLECTOMY; AEROSOL; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY SURGERY; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; APNEA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COUGHING; CROUP; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHONIA; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HELIUM OXYGEN BREATHING; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; JET VENTILATION; JUVENILE; JUVENILE ONSET RECURRENT RESPIRATORY PAPILLOMATOSIS; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; LOW DRUG DOSE; NEBULIZATION; OBESITY; OPERATING ROOM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN THERAPY; PAPILLOMATOSIS; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PEDIATRICS; PHARMACODYNAMICS; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOPERICARDIUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREMEDICATION; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT TUMOR; REVIEW; SEDATION; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STEADY STATE; STREPTOCOCCAL PHARYNGITIS; STRIDOR; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SURGERY; TRACHEA RECONSTRUCTION; TRACHEOMALACIA; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADENOIDECTOMY; ANESTHESIA; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CHILD; HUMANS; PAPILLOMA; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RESPIRATORY TRACT NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 77956638229     PISSN: 19322275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anclin.2010.07.008     Document Type: Review

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