Severe postoperative laryngeal oedema causing total airway obstruction immediately on extubation
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Emergency use of the laryngeal mask airway in severe upper airway obstruction caused by supraglottic oedema.
We report two cases of severe upper airway obstruction caused by supraglottic oedema which developed rapidly at the time of anaesthesia. Conventional methods to relieve the obstruction failed and it was only overcome when a laryngeal mask airway (LMA) was inserted and positive pressure applied manually during inspiration. In one case a fibrescope was passed via the LMA and this revealed two cus...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/82.4.644