Guided tactile probing: a modified blind orotracheal intubation technique for the problem-oriented difficult airway.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Intubation, Intratracheal
- Trachea