Cuffed versus uncuffed endotracheal tubes in pediatric anesthesia: The debate should finally end

Anesthesiology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 500-501

  Litman, Ronald S ^a   Maxwell, Lynne G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYETHERURETHAN;

BLOOD PRESSURE CUFF; BREATHING; CAPNOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE CUFF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LARYNX; LARYNX INJURY; MORBIDITY; NECROSIS; NEWBORN CARE; OPERATING ROOM; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY; SWELLING; TRACHEA INJURY; TRACHEOSTOMY; UNCUFFED ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE;

HUMANS; INFANT, PREMATURE; INHALATION; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS;

EID: 84874666047     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e318282cc8f     Document Type: Editorial

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