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Guided tactile probing: A modified blind orotracheal intubation technique for the problem‐oriented difficult airway
Author(s) -
Dutta A.,
Kumra V. P.,
Sood J.,
Swaroop A.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
acta anaesthesiologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1399-6576
pISSN - 0001-5172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2004.00545.x
Subject(s) - orotracheal intubation , medicine , intubation , airway , anesthesia , surgery
We present ‘tactile probing’, a guided approach to blind orotracheal intubation to secure a problem‐oriented anticipated difficult airway in a 55‐year‐old male patient scheduled for elective surgical tracheostomy for a postradiotherapy translaryngeal carcinoma. Standard techniques to gain the airway were inapplicable in this case and awake flexible fiberoscopy‐aided intubation had already failed.