Time to monitor cuff pressures and to start "thinking supraglottic"

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 124-125

  Sorbello, Massimiliano ^a   Kovic, Ivana Zdrav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b Clinical Hospital Centre 'Zvezdara'   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MORBIDITY; SORE THROAT; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; PHARYNGITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PHARYNGITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85040696763     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.23736/S0375-9393.17.12094-8     Document Type: Letter

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