COMPLETE AIRWAY-OBSTRUCTION DURING AWAKE FIBEROPTIC INTUBATION

Authors
SHAW IC WELCHEW EA HARRISON BJ MICHAEL S
Citation
Ic. Shaw et al., COMPLETE AIRWAY-OBSTRUCTION DURING AWAKE FIBEROPTIC INTUBATION, Anaesthesia, 52(6), 1997, pp. 582-585
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Anesthesiology
Journal title
Anaesthesia → ACNP
ISSN journal
00032409
Volume
52
Issue
6
Year of publication
1997
Pages
582 - 585
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-2409(1997)52:6<582:CADAFI>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Awake fibreoptic intubation is well established as the optimum method of securing the airway in patients in whom difficulty is anticipated. We report a patient undergoing awake fibreoptic intubation in whom the use of topical local anaesthetic precipitated acute loss of the airwa y so that urgent surgical intervention was required.