Bougie-facilitated Intubation in Penetrating Neck Injury

Received: 14.05.2019 Accepted: 23.05.2019 Corresponding Author: Ahmad Wazzan, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Phone: +966505524342 E-mail: dramwaz@hotmail.com ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-3958-4440 Cite this article as: Wazzan A. Bougie-facilitated Intubation in Penetrating Neck Injury. Eurasian J Emerg Med. 2019;18(2):110-1. A young male patient with a history of schizophrenia was admitted to the emergency department after suicide attempt. He slashed his neck with a broken glass and this resulted in a wound in zone II exposing laryngeal structures. The vocal cords could be visualized through the wound. Intubation over a bougie was successful after well tropicalizing the patient’s airway. The patient was taken for immediate tracheostomy and reconstruction.