Unusual airway obstruction during pneumonectomy
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Acute airway obstruction--an unusual cause.
A 69 year old woman arrived in the emergency department after a collapse at home. The ambulance crew found her in a low cardiac output state, unresponsive other than to painful stimulation. On arrival she was brady-cardic, hypotensive, and deeply cyanosed. Ventilation by means of a bag-and-mask system could not be achieved; she was therefore intu-bated. Her condition improved after atropine 0.6...
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عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0003-2409,1365-2044
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1976.tb11992.x