Open AccessLaryngeal Trauma During Awake Fiberoptic Intubation
Author(s) -
Mazen A. Maktabi,
Henry T. Hoffman,
Gery Funk,
Robert P. From
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1097/00000539-200210000-00061
Subject(s) - medicine , intubation , anesthesia , breathing , endotracheal intubation , airway , endotracheal tube , surgery
We describe three patients with difficult airways in which fiberoptic endotracheal intubation was used to insert breathing tubes into the patients' windpipes. Airway injury occurred during the use of this technique. Although largely a safe technique, care should be exercised when anesthesiologists choose equipment and when they perform this technique.