Novel use of an exchange catheter to facilitate intubation with an Aintree catheter in a tall patient with a predicted difficult airway: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gruenbaum, Shaun E ^a   Gruenbaum, Benjamin F ^b   Tsaregorodtsev, Sergey ^b   Dubilet, Michael ^b   Melamed, Israel ^b   Zlotnik, Alexander ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; PROPOFOL; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ADULT; AINTREE INTUBATING CATHETER; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CATHETERIZATION; CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY; EDEMA; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXEMIA; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; PELVIC EXAMINATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TALL STATURE; TISSUE INJURY; UMBILICAL CORD COMPLICATION;

EID: 84859645300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-6-108     Document Type: Article

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