Anaesthetic management for carbon dioxide laser surgery in tracheobronchial lesions.
There are technical difficulties associated with anaesthesia in patients who undergo laser surgery to the trachea and main bronchi using the carbon dioxide laser. An anaesthetic technique using spontaneous ventilation is described which has been used successfully in 33 patients.
South Cleveland Hospital, Middlesbrough.
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Hunton
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Oswal
D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000601:surgery; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D001980:Bronchi / Q000601:surgery*; D004724:Endoscopy; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D012119:Respiration; D014132:Trachea / Q000601:surgery*