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Ultrasound-Guided Glossopharyngeal Nerve Block for an Awake Intubation in a Patient Predicted to Have a Difficult Airway: A Case Report

A peripheral nerve block may be used to improve patient tolerance of awake intubation. During an awake intubation, the glossopharyngeal, superior laryngeal, and recurrent laryngeal nerves can mediate discomfort, pain, cough, glottic closure, and gag reflexes. We describe the use of ultrasound-guided...

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Autores principales: Wada, Nozomi, Furutani, Akiko, Tokumine, Joho, Nakazawa, Harumasa, Shimazu, Keisuke, Yorozu, Tomoko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10219664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37159909
http://dx.doi.org/10.1213/XAA.0000000000001682