Endobronchial Tuberculosis is hazardous in causing circumferential narrowing of tracheobronchial tree despite the eradication of tubercle bacilli in the initial insult from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. They may present as treatment resistant bronchial asthma and pose challenge to airway management in the acute setting. We present a 25 year-old lady who was newly diagnosed bronchial asthma with a pas...

Structured abstract Background: The efficacy of corticosteroids for reducing the incidence of post-extubation laryngeal edema remains controversial. Objective: To evaluate whether methylprednisolone (MP) started 12 hr prior to planned tracheal extubation, can prevent post-extubation laryngeal edema. Design: Prospective, randomized, blinded, placebocontrolled trial performed in 15 intensive care...

A 30-yr-old woman developed a placental abruption at 33 weeks gestation which was complicated by disseminated intravascular coagulation associated with low plasma fibrino-gen (0.76 g. L-1 ; normal 1.5±4.0 g. L-1) and a prolonged prothrombin time (18.5 s; normal 11.5±15 s). She was resuscitated with 1 L of colloid gelatin, 6 units each of red cell concentrate and fresh frozen plasma, 10 units of...

Upper airways disease is seen in 50-80% of necropsies in patients dying with rheumatoid arthritis.' Most commonly the larynx is affected by synovitis of the cricoarytenoid joints, producing structural and functional changes with hoarseness, dyspnoea and sore throat. Submucosal granulomas in the postcricoid and subhyoid regions are associated with oedema and fibrosis producing substantial suprag...

We report three cases of airway management with elective surgical cricothyroidotomy (SCT) for anesthetic management during surgical repair of maxillofacial injury involving basal skull fracture or nasal-bone fracture. In all patients, general anesthesia was induced, a supraglottic airway (SGA) device inserted, and SCT performed. Tracheal intubation was performed through SCT site, and the SGA de...

We assessed several factors which might be responsible for the recurrence of post-intubation airway stenosis in a large group of patients who underwent resection and reconstruction surgery by one surgical team. Four hundred and ninety-four patients underwent reconstruction of post-intubation airway stenosis during 1995-2006. The case group comprised patients who had developed recurrence, while ...