Awake intubation using Pentax AWS video-laryngoscope after failed fibreoptic intubation in a morbidly obese patient with a massive thyroid tumour and tracheal compression

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 311-312

  Jeyadoss, J ^a   Nanjappa, N ^a   Nemeth, D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BODY MASS; BRONCHOSCOPE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ENDOSCOPY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; NODULAR GOITER; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEA COMPRESSION;

FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GOITER; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEAL STENOSIS; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 79953189442     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: 14480271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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