Upper airway obstruction associated with flexed cervical position after posterior occipitocervical fusion

Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 120-122

  Tagawa, Tsuyoshi ^a   Akeda, Koji ^b   Asanuma, Yumiko ^b   Miyabe, Masayuki ^a   Arisaka, Hirofumi ^c   Furuya, Munetaka ^c   Yoshida, Kazuichi ^c   Sakuraba, Shigeki ^c  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANAGAWA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airway obstruction; Rheumatoid arthritis; Spinal fusion

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; SEVOFLURANE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; EXTUBATION; FACE MASK; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTUBATION; OPERATION DURATION; PARESTHESIA; REOPERATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINE FUSION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL BONE; POSTURE; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 79952249813     PISSN: 09138668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00540-010-1069-0     Document Type: Article

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