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Maintaining endotracheal tube cuff pressure at 20 mm Hg to prevent dysphagia after anterior cervical spine surgery; protocol of a double-blind randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: In anterior cervical spine surgery a retractor is obligatory to approach the spine. Previous studies showed an increase of endotracheal tube cuff pressure after placement of a retractor. It is known that high endotracheal tube cuff pressure increases the incidence of postoperative dyspha...

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Autores principales: Arts, Mark P, Rettig, Thijs C D, de Vries, Jessica, Wolfs, Jasper F C, in’t Veld, Bas A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3848991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24067111
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-14-280