Laryngeal morbidity after intubation with or without neuromuscular block in thyroid surgery using recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring

Auris Nasus Larynx

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 288-293

  Birkholz, Torsten ^a   Irouschek, Andrea ^a   Saalfrank Schardt, Christina ^a   Klein, Peter ^a   Schmidt, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Endotracheal intubation; Intraoperative monitoring; Laryngeal pathology; Neuromuscular block; Thyroid surgery

Indexed keywords

MIVACURIUM; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX DISORDER; LARYNX EDEMA; LARYNX INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PARESIS; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE MONITORING; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID SURGERY; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TRAUMATIC HEMATOMA; VOCAL CORD DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 84859721425     PISSN: 03858146     EISSN: 18791476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anl.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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