Airway obstruction after trans-jugular liver biopsy: anaesthetic management.

Smurthwaite, G J; Letheren, M J · Br J Anaesth · 1995

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

We describe the anaesthetic management of a patient who developed life-threatening airway obstruction after trans-jugular liver biopsy. An awake tracheal intubation was performed before anaesthesia was induced and an emergency tracheostomy carried out.

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