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Elective use of surgical cricothyroidotomy for maxillofacial fracture fixation with contraindication of nasotracheal intubation: a case report

We report three cases of airway management with elective surgical cricothyroidotomy (SCT) for anesthetic management during surgical repair of maxillofacial injury involving basal skull fracture or nasal-bone fracture. In all patients, general anesthesia was induced, a supraglottic airway (SGA) devic...

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Autores principales: Kuroiwa, Masayuki, Kumazawa, Kenichi, Ito, Sohei, Arai, Masayasu, Okamoto, Hirotsugu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5818707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29497648
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40981-015-0021-6