Background and Aims Awake fibre-optic intubation (AFOI) is an integral part of anaesthetic management of difficult airways. Conscious sedation is essential to assist AFOI. This study compared two different doses of dexmedetomidine in combination with topical spray and airway blocks for awake orotracheal fibre-optic intubation in patients undergoing elective cervical spine surgery with rigid cer...

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Correspondence To the Editor: In a single‑center, prospective, randomized double‑blind clinical study comparing dexmedetomidine‑ midazolam and sufentanil‑midazolam sedation regimens for awake fiberoptic intubation (AFOI) in 50 patients with difficult airways due to limited mouth opening, Li et al. show that both dexmedetomidine and sufentanil are effective as an adjuvant for AFOI under airway t...

A young adult was admitted to a casualty department with severe burns sustained in a motor vehicle fire. His airway was initially patient, but in grave danger of obstruction due to inhalational injury. Conventional methods of airway management were unable to guarantee a patent airway and a novel approach is described.