Usefulness of ultrasound pre-scanning for cricothyroid membrane puncture in a patient with rupture of a pseudoaneurysm

Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 77-80

  Owada, Gen ^a   Inagawa, Gaku ^a   Nakamura, Kyota ^a   Kariya, Takayuki ^a   Goto, Takahisa ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cricothyroid membrane puncture; Tracheal displacement; Ultrasound pre scanning; Urgent airway maintenance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CRICOTHYROID MEMBRANE PUNCTURE; EMERGENCY WARD; FALSE ANEURYSM; FIBEROSCOPE; HUMAN; MALE; NECK PAIN; NECK SWELLING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SWELLING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEOTOMY; ULTRASOUND; WAKEFULNESS;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; CAROTID ARTERIES; CRICOID CARTILAGE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEITIS FIBROSA CYSTICA; PUNCTURES; THYROID CARTILAGE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84893455434     PISSN: 00214892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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