Fluoroscopy assisted tracheal intubation in a case of anticipated difficult airway: Fail safe devices can also fail

Difficulty in airway management is the most important cause of major anesthesia-related morbidity and mortality. Unexpected difficulties may arise even with proper preanesthesia planning. Here, we report a case of anticipated difficult airway primarily planned for flexible fibreoptic bronchoscope as...

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Autores principales: Arulvelan, Appavoo, Soumya, Madhusudhan, Santhosh, Kannath
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4478829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26240555
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-354X.154739
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description Difficulty in airway management is the most important cause of major anesthesia-related morbidity and mortality. Unexpected difficulties may arise even with proper preanesthesia planning. Here, we report a case of anticipated difficult airway primarily planned for flexible fibreoptic bronchoscope assisted intubation, but due to unexpected failure of light source, fluoroscopy was used, and the airway was successfully secured.
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spelling pubmed-44788292015-08-03 Fluoroscopy assisted tracheal intubation in a case of anticipated difficult airway: Fail safe devices can also fail Arulvelan, Appavoo Soumya, Madhusudhan Santhosh, Kannath Saudi J Anaesth Case Report Difficulty in airway management is the most important cause of major anesthesia-related morbidity and mortality. Unexpected difficulties may arise even with proper preanesthesia planning. Here, we report a case of anticipated difficult airway primarily planned for flexible fibreoptic bronchoscope assisted intubation, but due to unexpected failure of light source, fluoroscopy was used, and the airway was successfully secured. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4478829/ /pubmed/26240555 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-354X.154739 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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Fluoroscopy assisted tracheal intubation in a case of anticipated difficult airway: Fail safe devices can also fail
title Fluoroscopy assisted tracheal intubation in a case of anticipated difficult airway: Fail safe devices can also fail
title_full Fluoroscopy assisted tracheal intubation in a case of anticipated difficult airway: Fail safe devices can also fail
title_fullStr Fluoroscopy assisted tracheal intubation in a case of anticipated difficult airway: Fail safe devices can also fail
title_full_unstemmed Fluoroscopy assisted tracheal intubation in a case of anticipated difficult airway: Fail safe devices can also fail
title_short Fluoroscopy assisted tracheal intubation in a case of anticipated difficult airway: Fail safe devices can also fail
title_sort fluoroscopy assisted tracheal intubation in a case of anticipated difficult airway: fail safe devices can also fail
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4478829/
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