Tracheal Intubation Awake or Under Anesthesia for Potential Difficult Airway

Tracheal Intubation Awake or Under Anesthesia for Potential Difficult Airway: Look Before You Leap

Airway regional anesthesia for awake fiberoptic intubation.

Providing anesthetic care to the patient with a difficult airway keenly interests anesthesiologists and is a situation that often provokes much anxiety and trepidation. However, dealing effectively and safely with these patients is a skill that all anesthesiologists should be familiar with and are expected to perform with competency. Difficult airways arise from multiple causes. Access to the o...

Awake fiberoptic or awake video laryngoscopic tracheal intubation in patients with anticipated difficult airway management: a randomized clinical trial.

BACKGROUND Awake flexible fiberoptic intubation (FFI) is the gold standard for management of anticipated difficult tracheal intubation. The purpose of this study was to compare awake FFI to awake McGrath® video laryngoscope, (MVL), (Aircraft Medical, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom) intubation in patients with an anticipated difficult intubation. The authors examined the hypothesis that MVL...

The Combitube oesophageal-tracheal double lumen airway for difficult intubation.

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Sevoflurane for difficult tracheal intubation.

Three patients in whom difficult tracheal intubation was expected but awake fibreoptic intubation was not feasible presented for head and neck surgery. Anaesthesia was induced rapidly and smoothly by inhalation of sevoflurane followed by fibreoptic or conventional tracheal intubation.