A rare complication of the use of a finger cot to protect the cuff of a tracheal tube during nasotracheal intubation.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Some anesthetists in Switzerland and elsewhere use a finger cot to protect the cuff of the endotracheal tube during nasotracheal intubation. In the presented report the finger cut was lost during the procedure and the patient presented 3 months later with a lateral neck mass. The finger cot was found within that mass at exploration. Apart from the other potential risks of this manoeuvre, this severe complication should incite caution against the practice described above.
Medical subject headings
- Foreign-Body Migration
- Intubation, Intratracheal
- Thyroid Gland