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Complete airway obstruction during awake fibreoptic intubation
Author(s) -
Shaw I. C.,
Welchew E. A.,
Harrison B. J.,
Michael S.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1997.155-az0155.x
Subject(s) - medicine , intubation , anesthesia , airway , airway obstruction , surgery
Awake fibreoptic intubation is well established as the optimum method of securing the airway in patients in whom difficulty is anticipated. We report a patient undergoing awake fibreoptic intubation in whom the use of topical local anaesthetic precipitated acute loss of the airway so that urgent surgical intervention was required.