Fiberoptic-guided tracheal intubation under precise anesthesia and topicalization with spontaneous respiration preservation for an uncooperative patient with severe postburn mentosternal contracture

Clin Case Rep. 2021 Dec 7;9(12):e05208. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.5208. eCollection 2021 Dec.

Abstract

Airway management of patients with difficult airways is a challenge to the anesthesiologists and awake tracheal intubation is the recommended strategy. Successful fiberoptic-guided tracheal intubation under precise anesthesia and topicalization with spontaneous respiration preservation was achieved in an uncooperative patient with severe postburn mentosternal contracture scheduled for release of contracture.

Keywords: awake intubation; difficult airway; sevoflurane; spray‐as‐you‐go.

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