Continuous ventilation technique for laryngeal mask airway (LMA™) removal after fiberoptic intubation in children

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 936-940

  Weiss, Markus ^a   Gerber, Andreas C ^a   Schmitz, Achim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Airway management; Children; Difficult; Fiberoptic; Intubation; Laryngeal mask airway

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXTUBATION; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LUNG VENTILATION; MOUTH; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ENDOSCOPES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; PULMONARY VENTILATION;

EID: 8744229896     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2004.01354.x     Document Type: Article

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