introduction: tracheal stenosis is normally caused by trauma, infection, benign and malignant tumors, prolonged intubation or tracheostomy. the best treatment for tracheal stenosis is resection and anastomosis of trachea. yet the major surgical complication of tracheal surgery is postoperative stenosis. the goal of this paper is to study the result of tracheal stenting as a replacement therapy ...

BACKGROUND Perioperative respiratory complications after adenotonsillectomy (T&A) are common and have been described to occur more frequently in children below 3 years of age, those with cranio-facial abnormalities, Down syndrome, obstructive sleep apnea, morbid obesity, and failure to thrive. AIMS To investigate the association between awake vs deep tracheal extubation and perioperative resp...

We read with interest the randomized clinical trial by Joo et al. (1) of difficult airway management, in which they compared the merits of inserting the intubating laryngeal mask airway (ILMA) under general anesthesia with awake fiberoptic intubation (AFOI). Joo et al. (1) rightly point out that the ILMA can be used as the sole airway without tracheal intubation. Because a clear airway had been...

We retrospectively reviewed the anesthesia records of infants < 1 year of age for elucidating the incidence of difficult intubation and airway management in a single general hospital. The electronic data records from a total of 753 consecutive anesthesiological procedures in 513 different infants were analyzed. After excluding data with a lack of records of laryngoscopic findings, a total of 49...

awake intubation is the choice for airway management in anticipated difficult airway (da), which means establishing airway without induction of deep sedation; however, in cases where sedation is precarious, decision in emergency situations, success in awake intubation is dependent on proper regional airway block. a 21 year old man with bilateral temporo-mandibular ankyolosis and a 25 years old ...

Knudsen, K. 2016. Airway management in anaesthesia care. – professional and patient perspectives. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1205. 56 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9534-3. Background: Careful airway management, including tracheal intubation, is important when performing anaesthesia in order to achieve safe...

Editor, I would like to present a method of local anaesthesia for ‘awake intubation’, i.e. intubation in a conscious patient under local anaesthesia and sedation using the Truview PCD laryngoscope (Truphatek, Israel), for cases of anticipated difficult intubation. The use of video laryngoscopes for awake intubation has been described in the literature as a good alternative to fibreoptic intubat...