Difficult Airway Due to an Undiagnosed Subglottic Tumor
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Difficult Airway Due to an Undiagnosed Subglottic Tumor
The "cannot ventilate, cannot intubate" scenario during anesthesia induction can be lethal. We present a patient with an undiagnosed subglottic tumor who developed the "cannot ventilate, cannot intubate" situation after induction of general anesthesia, due to the presence of an undiagnosed subglottic tumor. A 93-year-old woman was brought to the operating room for repair of a femoral neck fract...
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Corresponding author: Jong In Oh, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, National Police Hospital, Garakbon-dong, Songpagu, Seoul 138-708, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3400-1323, Fax: 82-2-3400-1270, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), wh...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0025-7974
DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000003383