Cannot ventilate-cannot intubate an infant: Surgical tracheotomy or transtracheal cannula?

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 987-993

  Johansen, Karina ^a   Holm Knudsen, Rolf J ^a   Charabi, Birgitte ^b   Kristensen, Michael S ^a   Rasmussen, Lars Simon ^a  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Airway algorithm; Animal model; Children; Difficult airway; Emergency tracheotomy; Transtracheal cannula

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANNULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTUBATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SWINE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRANSTRACHEAL CANNULA;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANIMALS; BRONCHOSCOPES; CATHETERIZATION; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HIGH-FREQUENCY JET VENTILATION; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; NECK; PALPATION; SWINE; TRACHEA; TRACHEOTOMY;

EID: 78349270189     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2010.03417.x     Document Type: Article

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