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Oral and nasotracheal light wand guided intubation after failed fibreoptic bronchoscopy
Author(s) -
REHMAN MOHAMED,
SCHREINER MARK
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
pediatric anesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.704
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1460-9592
pISSN - 1155-5645
DOI - 10.1046/j.1460-9592.1997.d01-85.x
Subject(s) - medicine , nasotracheal intubation , tracheal intubation , intubation , bronchoscopy , anesthesia , flexible bronchoscopy , surgery
Fibreoptic bronchoscopic guided tracheal intubation is often the first choice for clinicians familiar with the technique, when faced with a patient in whom tracheal intubation presents known or possible difficulties. Regardless of the technique chosen, anticipated and unanticipated problems may arise. We report three patients with known difficult airways that illustrate the utility of light wand guided oral and nasotracheal intubation when tracheal intubation with fibreoptic bronchoscopy proved impossible.