Foreign Body Obstruction Preventing Blind Nasal Intubation

Overview

Journal Anesth Prog

Specialties Anesthesiology
Dentistry

Date 2006 Jul 26

PMID 16863390

Citations 3

Authors

Simon Prior

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Abstract

A healthy young male patient was scheduled for dental care under nasotracheal intubated general anesthesia. The presence of a plastic calculator key complicated the intubation. This case report describes the event and reviews some possible techniques for coping with an airway that becomes obstructed by a foreign object.

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