Management of a known difficult airway in a morbidly obese patient with gross supraglottic oedema secondary to thyroid disease

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 927-930

  Hariprasad, M ^a   Smurthwaite, G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airway; Complications, oedema; Intubation, fibreoptic

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; COCAINE; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE; LIDOCAINE; OXYGEN; SCOPOLAMINE; SEVOFLURANE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LARYNX EDEMA; OBESITY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; STRIDOR; THYROID DISEASE; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 0036898462     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aef274     Document Type: Article

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