A novel use of nasopharyngeal airway in managing airway leak

We report a case of severe maxillofacial injury, who while undergoing later stages of reconstruction surgeries, presented with an inimitable kind of air leak during mask ventilation and its interesting management using a nasopharyngeal airway. The case also enlightens the importance of evaluating th...

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Autores principales: Saxena, Anudeep, Tomar, Gaurav Singh, Sokhal, Suman, Singh, Nilesh
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/PMC4683501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26712988
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0259-1162.158006
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author Saxena, Anudeep
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description We report a case of severe maxillofacial injury, who while undergoing later stages of reconstruction surgeries, presented with an inimitable kind of air leak during mask ventilation and its interesting management using a nasopharyngeal airway. The case also enlightens the importance of evaluating the available computed tomography images as a part of preanesthetic check-up.
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spelling pubmed-46835012015-12-28 A novel use of nasopharyngeal airway in managing airway leak Saxena, Anudeep Tomar, Gaurav Singh Sokhal, Suman Singh, Nilesh Anesth Essays Res Case Report We report a case of severe maxillofacial injury, who while undergoing later stages of reconstruction surgeries, presented with an inimitable kind of air leak during mask ventilation and its interesting management using a nasopharyngeal airway. The case also enlightens the importance of evaluating the available computed tomography images as a part of preanesthetic check-up. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4683501/ /pubmed/26712988 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0259-1162.158006 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Anesthesia: Essays and Researches 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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