Infant with unanticipated difficult airway - Trachlight TM to the rescue

Lighted stylets may be used for assisting in oral intubation in both adult as well as pediatric age groups. We report the anesthetic management of an 11- month-old infant with fractured mandible where the airway was secured with tracheal lightwand-guided nasal intubation after the failure of repeate...

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Main Authors: Alpna Jain, Manish Naithani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology
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Online Access:http://www.joacp.org/article.asp?issn=0970-9185;year=2012;volume=28;issue=3;spage=361;epage=363;aulast=Jain
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description Lighted stylets may be used for assisting in oral intubation in both adult as well as pediatric age groups. We report the anesthetic management of an 11- month-old infant with fractured mandible where the airway was secured with tracheal lightwand-guided nasal intubation after the failure of repeated attempts of conventional laryngoscopy.
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spellingShingle Alpna Jain
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Infant with unanticipated difficult airway - Trachlight TM to the rescue
Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology
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pediatric
trachlight
title Infant with unanticipated difficult airway - Trachlight TM to the rescue
title_full Infant with unanticipated difficult airway - Trachlight TM to the rescue
title_fullStr Infant with unanticipated difficult airway - Trachlight TM to the rescue
title_full_unstemmed Infant with unanticipated difficult airway - Trachlight TM to the rescue
title_short Infant with unanticipated difficult airway - Trachlight TM to the rescue
title_sort infant with unanticipated difficult airway trachlight tm to the rescue
topic Difficult airway
pediatric
trachlight
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