Two cases of the "cannot ventilate, cannot intubate" scenario in children in view of recent recommendations

Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 88-91

  Wołoszczuk Gȩbicka, Bogumiła ^a   Zawadzka Głos, Lidia ^a   Lenarczyk, Jerzy ^a   Sitkowska, Bozena Dorota ^a   Rzewnicka, Iwona ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Children, difficult airway; Muscle relaxants, antagonists, sugammadex; Muscle relaxants, vecuronium

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SEVOFLURANE; SUGAMMADEX; VECURONIUM;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GAS EXCHANGE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INFANT; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MANDIBULOFACIAL DYSOSTOSIS; MUSCLE RELAXATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH DISTENSION; STRIDOR; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 84901468734     PISSN: 16425758     EISSN: 17312531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5603/AIT.2014.017     Document Type: Article

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