Himarani Jayachandran, Nancy S Mary, Krishna Kumar Raja V B, Sundaram S Shanmuga
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, SRM Dental College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Indian J Anaesth. 2017 Apr;61(4):347-349. doi: 10.4103/ija.IJA_674_16.
Damage to the endotracheal tube (ETT) is common in head and neck surgeries, especially in maxillary osteotomy. Airway management in such a crisis is crucial as there is risk of aspiration of blood into lungs, hypoxia and apnoea. This case illustrates a patient with an anticipated difficult airway who had an intraoperative damage to the ETT and was successfully managed by re-intubation with fiberoptic bronchoscope in a minimal apnoea period of <15 s using a new technique.
气管内插管(ETT)损伤在头颈外科手术中很常见,尤其是在上颌骨截骨术中。在这种危急情况下的气道管理至关重要,因为存在血液误吸到肺、缺氧和呼吸暂停的风险。本病例展示了一名预计气道困难的患者,其在术中发生了ETT损伤,并通过一种新技术在小于15秒的最短呼吸暂停期内使用纤维支气管镜重新插管成功进行了处理。