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Paediatric flexible bronchoscopy *
Author(s) -
Masters IB,
Cooper P
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1754.2002.00058.x
Subject(s) - medicine , bronchoscopy , flexible bronchoscopy , intensive care medicine , medical physics , surgery
Flexible bronchoscopy is an emerging diagnostic, therapeutic and supportive procedure used in paediatric respiratory medicine. Despite the improvements in instruments and anaesthetic support for this procedure, supervised training, strict quality‐control measures and ongoing research are essential to ensure standards of safe practice and judicial use of the procedure.