• Anaesthesia · Jun 2006

    Case Reports

    Use of the fibreoptic intubating LMA-CTrach in two patients with difficult airways.

    • A J Goldman and W H Rosenblatt.
    • Department Anaesthesiology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, 98195, USA. agoldman@u.washington.edu
    • Anaesthesia. 2006 Jun 1;61(6):601-3.

    AbstractWe report two patients with difficult airways who underwent tracheal intubation using the new fibreoptic intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway CTrach. The imaging technology of the LMA-CTrach was decisive in the management of these two patients. The first patient had lingual tonsillar hyperplasia, and an omega-shaped retroflexed epiglottis. The second patient had a C2-occipital fusion and was completely unable to extend her head. Given the anatomical difficulties encountered, it was likely that intubation would have been difficult or impossible through the LMA-Fastrach. The aim of this report is to describe the successful use of this new intubating laryngeal mask airway in these two challenging patients.

      Pubmed     Free full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…