The usefulness of ultrasonographic measurement of the laryngeal air column width difference before extubation as a predictor of secondary airway obstruction after extubation in children

• Main Authors: Arturo Gerardo Garza Alatorre (Author), Veronica Rodríguez Martínez (Author), Yanyn Ameyaly Cabrera Antonio (Author), Jorge Alejandro Franco Fernández (Author), Alejandra Viridiana Zavala Valdes (Author), Valeria Estefania Velázquez Ramírez (Author), Miguel Emanuel Navarrete Juarez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Postextubation airway obstruction, also called postextubation stridor, is one of the most frequent complications of orotracheal intubation and the main cause of extubation failure (EF). Several potential predictors of extubation outcomes have been investigated, although their predictive...