High Thoracic Epidural Analgesia for Cardiac Surgery: An Audit of 874 Cases
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Thoracic epidural analgesia after cardiac surgery.
To the Editor:—In a recent letter, Erickson and Lanier reported on a useful method to preoxygenate claustrophobic patients who will not tolerate a facemask, by having the patients hold the L-connector of the anesthesia circuit in their mouth. They may be interested to know that an identical method, complete with an almost identical photograph, was published as a correspondence by Keifer and Sti...
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To the Editor:—In a recent letter, Erickson and Lanier reported on a useful method to preoxygenate claustrophobic patients who will not tolerate a facemask, by having the patients hold the L-connector of the anesthesia circuit in their mouth. They may be interested to know that an identical method, complete with an almost identical photograph, was published as a correspondence by Keifer and Sti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0310-057X,1448-0271
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0703500309