Can sugammadex save a patient in a simulated 'cannot intubate, cannot ventilate' scenario?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-142

  Dada, A ^a   Dunsire, F ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SUGAMMADEX; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; BODY MASS; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LETTER; LUNG VENTILATION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

ANDROSTANOLS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCIES; GAMMA-CYCLODEXTRINS; HUMANS; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; SUCCINYLCHOLINE;

EID: 79251605522     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2010.06600.x     Document Type: Letter

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