Delayed airway compromise following extubation of adult patients who required surgical drainage of Ludwig's angina: Comment on three coronial cases

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 506-508

  Greenland, K B ^a   Acott, C ^a   Segal, R ^a   Riley, R H ^a   Merry, A F ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; COUGHING; CYANOSIS; DEATH; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTUBATION; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; LETTER; LUDWIG ANGINA; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SORE THROAT; STRIDOR; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; VOICE CHANGE;

ADULT; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRAINAGE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNX; LUDWIG'S ANGINA; MALE;

EID: 79957880106     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: 14480271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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