Airway management in cervical spine ankylosing spondylitis: Between a rock and a hard place

Airway management in cervical spine ankylosing spondylitis: Between a rock and a hard place

We report the perioperative course of a patient with long standing ankylosing spondylitis with severe dysphagia due to large anterior cervical syndesmophytes at the level of the epiglottis. He was scheduled to undergo anterior cervical decompression and the surgical approach possibly precluded an el...

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Main Authors: Naveen Eipe, Susan Fossey, Stephen P Kingwell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2013-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Anaesthesia
Subjects:
Airways
airways - difficult anticipated
co-existing diseases - ankylosing spondylitis
diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
fiberoptic
intubation
intubation - awake
modified nasal trumpet
nasal
nasal - airway
split nasopharyngeal airway
Online Access:http://www.ijaweb.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5049;year=2013;volume=57;issue=6;spage=592;epage=595;aulast=Eipe

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