A child with a difficult airway: What do i do next?

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 326-332

  Engelhardt, Thomas ^a   Weiss, Markus ^b  

^a ROYAL ABERDEEN CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

airway; difficult; expected; impaired; pediatric; suspected; unexpected

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; HYPNOTIC AGENT;

ADENOID HYPERTROPHY; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; BRADYCARDIA; BREATHING; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHOSPASM; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIGLOTTITIS; FACE MASK; FOREIGN BODY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPERINFLATION; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNX SPASM; MORTALITY; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; OXYGENATION; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; TRACHEOSTOMY;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA; CHILD; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

EID: 84861092823     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: 14736500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e3283532ac4     Document Type: Review

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