A prospective, cohort evaluation of major and minor airway management complications during routine anaesthetic care at an academic medical centre

Anaesthesia

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 42-48

  Huitink, J M ^a   Lie, P P ^a   Heideman, I ^a   Jansma, E P ^a   Greif, R ^b   van Schagen, N ^a   Schauer, A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

airway management; brain damage; complications; emergency surgical airway; general anaesthesia; serious adverse events

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; EPINEPHRINE;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BRADYCARDIA; CATHETER; CHILD; CLINICAL AUDIT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRICOID CARTILAGE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; IMMOBILIZATION; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXYGEN DESATURATION; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUNCTURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESUSCITATION; SCHOOL CHILD; VIDEOLARYNGOSCOPE; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NETHERLANDS; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERY ELDERLY;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT ADMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84995595731     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.13640     Document Type: Article

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