Difficult mask ventilation and muscle paralysis

Anesthesiology

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 994-

  Engelhardt, Thomas ^a   Weiss, Markus ^a  

^a ROYAL ABERDEEN CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRONCHOSPASM; COUGHING; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX SPASM; LETTER; MASK; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOMITING;

ANDROSTANOLS; ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASKS; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENTS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SUCCINYLCHOLINE;

EID: 84875907739     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3182874659     Document Type: Letter

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