Persistent 'can't intubate, can't oxygenate' crisis despite reversal of rocuronium with sugammadex: The importance of timing

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 722-

  Curtis, R P ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROCURONIUM; SUGAMMADEX;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; CANT INTUBATE CANT OXYGENATE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPE; LETTER; OXYGEN SATURATION; SUPRAGLOTTITIS; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANDROSTANOLS; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CYSTS; FEMALE; GAMMA-CYCLODEXTRINS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL DISEASES; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; OXYGEN;

EID: 84865103585     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: 14480271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

References (4)

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4. Frerk C, Cook T. Management of the "can't intubate, can't ventilate situation and the emergency surgical airway. In: Cook T, Woodall N, Frerk C (eds). Major Complications of Airway Management in the United Kingdom. London: Royal College of Anaesthetists 2011 p. 113.