The parker flex-tip tube is useful in a bougie-assisted endotracheal tube exchange after lung lavage

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 901-

  Kitagawa, Hirotoshi ^a   Imashuku, Yasuhiko ^a   Yamazaki, Toji ^b  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KINKI CHUO CHEST MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM;

ADULT; BOUGIE; CASE REPORT; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EPIGLOTTIS; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNX; LETTER; LUNG ALVEOLUS PROTEINOSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SORE THROAT;

ADULT; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PULMONARY ALVEOLAR PROTEINOSIS;

EID: 77957704890     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2009.08.004     Document Type: Letter

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