AIRWAY-OBSTRUCTION AFTER TRANS-JUGULAR LIVER-BIOPSY - ANESTHETIC MANAGEMENT

Authors
SMURTHWAITE GJ LETHEREN MJR
Citation
Gj. Smurthwaite et Mjr. Letheren, AIRWAY-OBSTRUCTION AFTER TRANS-JUGULAR LIVER-BIOPSY - ANESTHETIC MANAGEMENT, British Journal of Anaesthesia, 75(1), 1995, pp. 102-104
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Anesthesiology
Journal title
British Journal of Anaesthesia → ACNP
ISSN journal
00070912
Volume
75
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
102 - 104
Database
ISI
SICI code
0007-0912(1995)75:1<102:AATL-A>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
We describe the anaesthetic management of a patient who developed life -threatening airway obstruction after trans-jugular liver biopsy. An a wake tracheal intubation was performed before anaesthesia was induced and an emergency tracheostomy carried out.