Airway management in a patient with Le Fort III Fracture

Maxillofacial fractures present unique airway problem to the anesthesiologist. Patients with LeFort III fractures are at great risk of requiring emergent airway control due to midface instability and oropharyngeal airway obstruction. We present a case where difficult intubation was managed with clos...

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Autores principales: Ghabach, Maroun B., Abou Rouphael, Myriam A., Roumoulian, Caroline E., Helou, May R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3950437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24665254
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-354X.125974
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author Ghabach, Maroun B.
Abou Rouphael, Myriam A.
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description Maxillofacial fractures present unique airway problem to the anesthesiologist. Patients with LeFort III fractures are at great risk of requiring emergent airway control due to midface instability and oropharyngeal airway obstruction. We present a case where difficult intubation was managed with close cooperation between the anesthesiologist and the surgeon.
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spelling pubmed-39504372014-03-24 Airway management in a patient with Le Fort III Fracture Ghabach, Maroun B. Abou Rouphael, Myriam A. Roumoulian, Caroline E. Helou, May R. Saudi J Anaesth Case Report Maxillofacial fractures present unique airway problem to the anesthesiologist. Patients with LeFort III fractures are at great risk of requiring emergent airway control due to midface instability and oropharyngeal airway obstruction. We present a case where difficult intubation was managed with close cooperation between the anesthesiologist and the surgeon. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3950437/ /pubmed/24665254 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-354X.125974 Text en Copyright: © Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia 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.
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title_full Airway management in a patient with Le Fort III Fracture
title_fullStr Airway management in a patient with Le Fort III Fracture
title_full_unstemmed Airway management in a patient with Le Fort III Fracture
title_short Airway management in a patient with Le Fort III Fracture
title_sort airway management in a patient with le fort iii fracture
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3950437/
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