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- Title
Awake intubation using Pentax AWS video- laryngoscope after failed fibreoptic intubation in a morbidly obese patient with a massive thyroid tumour and tracheal compression.
- Authors
JEYADOSS, J.; NANJAPPA, N.; NEMETH, D.
- Abstract
The article presents the case of a 53-year-old morbidly obese man who was scheduled for total thyroidectomy. His previous medical history included ischemic heart disease, chronic obstructive airway disease and type II diabetes mellitus. An awake intubation using Pentax Airway Scope (AWS) video-laryngoscope was conducted after intubation with 11 Fr fibreoptic bronchoscope failed.
- Subjects
THYROIDECTOMY; OVERWEIGHT persons; CORONARY disease; OBSTRUCTIVE lung diseases; DIABETES; DISEASES
- Publication
Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, 2011, Vol 39, Issue 2, p311
- ISSN
0310-057X
- Publication type
Case Study