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Anesthesia progress · Jan 2006
Case ReportsForeign body obstruction preventing blind nasal intubation.
- Simon Prior.
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. prior.20@osu.edu
- Anesth Prog. 2006 Jan 1;53(2):49-52.
AbstractA healthy young male patient was scheduled for dental care under nasotracheal intubated general anesthesia. The presence of a plastic calculator key complicated the intubation. This case report describes the event and reviews some possible techniques for coping with an airway that becomes obstructed by a foreign object.
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