A comparison of airway dimensions, measured by acoustic reflectometry and ultrasound before and after general anaesthesia

Anaesthesia

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1355-1363

  Ushiroda, J ^a   Inoue, S ^a   Kirita, T ^a   Kawaguchi, M ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; ROCURONIUM; SUGAMMADEX;

ADULT; AIRWAY VOLUME; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE DIAMETER; NECK CIRCUMFERENCE; NECK MUSCLE; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; POSTANESTHESIA CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REFLECTOMETRY; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; TRACHEA; VERY ELDERLY;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK MUSCLES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRACHEA;

EID: 84922061314     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.12825     Document Type: Article

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