Fiberoptic‐guided tracheal intubation under precise anesthesia and topicalization with spontaneous respiration preservation for an uncooperative patient with severe postburn mentosternal contracture

• Published in: Clinical case reports Vol. 9; no. 12; pp. e05208 - n/a
• Main Authors: Wang, Zhi, Yang, Yong, Chen, Yang, Yi, Bin, Lu, Kaizhi, Chen, Bing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.12.2021; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Airway management; Anesthesia; awake intubation; Bronchoscopy; Cancer; Carotid arteries; Case Report; Case reports; Catheters; difficult airway; Epidural; Epiglottis; Hypoxia; Intubation; Larynx; Ostomy; Patients; Respiration; sevoflurane; Skin & tissue grafts; spray‐as‐you‐go; Surgery; Tracheotomy; China; awake intubation; sevoflurane; difficult airway; spray‐as‐you‐go
• ISSN: 2050-0904; 2050-0904
• DOI: 10.1002/ccr3.5208

Airway management of patients with difficult airways is a challenge to the anesthesiologists and awake tracheal intubation is the recommended strategy. Successful fiberoptic‐guided tracheal intubation under precise anesthesia and topicalization with spontaneous respiration preservation was achieved in an uncooperative patient with severe postburn mentosternal contracture scheduled for release of contracture. Fiberoptic‐guided tracheal intubation under precise anesthesia and topicalization with spontaneous respiration preservation can be considered in uncooperative patients with severe postburn mentosternal contracture scheduled for release of contracture.