Difficult tracheostomy tube placement in an obese patient with a short neck -A case report-

We report a difficult case of tracheostomy in a 34-year-old obese woman with a short neck. The tracheostomy tube placement repeatedly failed because of anatomical changes due to obesity and a short neck, tracheal mucosal swelling due to prolonged intubation, and unexpected false passage; however, it...

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Autores principales: Hwang, Sung Mi, Jang, Ji Su, Yoo, Jae In, Kwon, Hyung Ki, Lee, Soo Kyung, Lee, Jae Jun, Lim, So Young
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Anesthesiologists 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3121091/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21738847
http://dx.doi.org/10.4097/kjae.2011.60.6.434
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author Hwang, Sung Mi
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description We report a difficult case of tracheostomy in a 34-year-old obese woman with a short neck. The tracheostomy tube placement repeatedly failed because of anatomical changes due to obesity and a short neck, tracheal mucosal swelling due to prolonged intubation, and unexpected false passage; however, it was successfully performed using an endotracheal tube exchanger as a guidewire.
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spelling pubmed-31210912011-07-07 Difficult tracheostomy tube placement in an obese patient with a short neck -A case report- Hwang, Sung Mi Jang, Ji Su Yoo, Jae In Kwon, Hyung Ki Lee, Soo Kyung Lee, Jae Jun Lim, So Young Korean J Anesthesiol Case Report We report a difficult case of tracheostomy in a 34-year-old obese woman with a short neck. The tracheostomy tube placement repeatedly failed because of anatomical changes due to obesity and a short neck, tracheal mucosal swelling due to prolonged intubation, and unexpected false passage; however, it was successfully performed using an endotracheal tube exchanger as a guidewire. The Korean Society of Anesthesiologists 2011-06 2011-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3121091/ /pubmed/21738847 http://dx.doi.org/10.4097/kjae.2011.60.6.434 Text en Copyright © the Korean Society of Anesthesiologists, 2011 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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