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Central airway compression Anaesthetic and intensive care consequences
Author(s) -
McMahon C. C.,
Rainey L.,
Fulton B.,
Conacher I. D.
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.1365-2044.1997.64-az0066.x
Subject(s) - medicine , airway , intensive care , airway management , anesthesia , dynamic hyperinflation , compression (physics) , hyperinflation , supraglottic airway , intensive care medicine , lung volumes , lung , materials science , monetary economics , monetary policy , economics , composite material
We present the case of a 32‐year‐old woman with compression of the central airway, in whom airway control was lost on two separate occasions, regained using a rigid bronchoscope and whose subsequent intensive care management was complicated by dynamic hyperinflation.