Airway exchange failure and complications with the use of the cook airway exchange Catheter®: A single center cohort study of 1177 patients

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1325-1327

  Mclean, Sheron ^a   Lanam, Carolyn R ^a   Benedict, Wendy ^a   Kirkpatrick, Nathan ^a   Kheterpal, Sachin ^a   Ramachandran, Satya Krishna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY EDEMA; AIRWAY EXCHANGE FAILURE; AIRWAY INJURY; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CATHETER COMPLICATION; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LIP INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; THYROIDECTOMY;

CATHETERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MICHIGAN; PNEUMOTHORAX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84889041637     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3182a7cd3d     Document Type: Article

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