Emergency percutaneous tracheostomy in two cancer patients with difficult airway: An alternative to cricothyroidotomy?

Inability to intubate and/or ventilate either due to distorted neck anatomy or restricted mouth opening is uncommon but potentially hazardous clinical scenario in head and neck cancer patients. Emergency cricothyroidotomy in such patients may provide a means of oxygenating the patient, but in practi...

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Autores principales: Nasa, Prashant, Singh, Akhilesh, Juneja, Deven, Garg, Nitin, Singh, Omender, Javeri, Yash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3876616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24455521
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.103722
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author Nasa, Prashant
Singh, Akhilesh
Juneja, Deven
Garg, Nitin
Singh, Omender
Javeri, Yash
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Singh, Akhilesh
Juneja, Deven
Garg, Nitin
Singh, Omender
Javeri, Yash
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description Inability to intubate and/or ventilate either due to distorted neck anatomy or restricted mouth opening is uncommon but potentially hazardous clinical scenario in head and neck cancer patients. Emergency cricothyroidotomy in such patients may provide a means of oxygenating the patient, but in practice has limitations and does not establish a definitive airway. We report 2 cases who had distorted face and neck anatomy in which percutaneous tracheostomy was done as an emergency life-saving procedure when other measures to obtain a definitive airway failed.
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spelling pubmed-38766162014-01-16 Emergency percutaneous tracheostomy in two cancer patients with difficult airway: An alternative to cricothyroidotomy? Nasa, Prashant Singh, Akhilesh Juneja, Deven Garg, Nitin Singh, Omender Javeri, Yash South Asian J Cancer Case Report Inability to intubate and/or ventilate either due to distorted neck anatomy or restricted mouth opening is uncommon but potentially hazardous clinical scenario in head and neck cancer patients. Emergency cricothyroidotomy in such patients may provide a means of oxygenating the patient, but in practice has limitations and does not establish a definitive airway. We report 2 cases who had distorted face and neck anatomy in which percutaneous tracheostomy was done as an emergency life-saving procedure when other measures to obtain a definitive airway failed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3876616/ /pubmed/24455521 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.103722 Text en Copyright: © South Asian Journal of Cancer http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Nasa, Prashant
Singh, Akhilesh
Juneja, Deven
Garg, Nitin
Singh, Omender
Javeri, Yash
Emergency percutaneous tracheostomy in two cancer patients with difficult airway: An alternative to cricothyroidotomy?
title Emergency percutaneous tracheostomy in two cancer patients with difficult airway: An alternative to cricothyroidotomy?
title_full Emergency percutaneous tracheostomy in two cancer patients with difficult airway: An alternative to cricothyroidotomy?
title_fullStr Emergency percutaneous tracheostomy in two cancer patients with difficult airway: An alternative to cricothyroidotomy?
title_full_unstemmed Emergency percutaneous tracheostomy in two cancer patients with difficult airway: An alternative to cricothyroidotomy?
title_short Emergency percutaneous tracheostomy in two cancer patients with difficult airway: An alternative to cricothyroidotomy?
title_sort emergency percutaneous tracheostomy in two cancer patients with difficult airway: an alternative to cricothyroidotomy?
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3876616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24455521
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.103722
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