Awake fibreoptic bronchoscopy guided intubation – significance of sitting position
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Awake Fibreoptic Intubation in the Sitting Position in a Patient with a Huge Goitre
A 46-year-old woman was anesthetized for total thyroidectomy. The thyroid was massive, deviating the trachea to the right and causing attenuation of the trachea radiologically. She had symptoms of respiratory obstruction in the supine position. Awake FOB-guided intubation was done in sitting position after airway topicalisation, and the airway was intubated with difficulty with 7.0 mm cuffed or...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0019-5049
DOI: 10.4103/ija.ija_300_18