Airway complications during and after general anesthesia: A comparison, systematic review and meta-analysis of using flexible laryngeal mask airways and endotracheal tubes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Xu, Rui ^a   Lian, Ying ^b   Li, Wen Xian ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SHANDONG FIRST MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADENOTONSILLECTOMY; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONVALESCENCE; COUGHING; DENTAL SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNX DISORDER; LARYNX SPASM; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; META ANALYSIS; MOUTH GAG; NOSE SEPTUM RECONSTRUCTION; NOSE SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN DESATURATION; PALATOPLASTY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECOVERY ROOM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SORE THROAT; SURGEON; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEA DISEASE; TREATMENT INDICATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COUGH; PHARYNGITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; COUGH; HOARSENESS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; PHARYNGITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84978982772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158137     Document Type: Article

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