Rapid orotracheal intubation in the clenched-jaw patient: a modification of the lightwand technique.
Emergency airway management of the patient with a clenched jaw can present a special challenge to the anesthesiologist. We describe four cases in which the patients had a clenched jaw and nasotracheal intubation was either contraindicated or several attempts had failed. All patients were successfully orotracheally intubated by a modification of the lightwand technique.
Hartman
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Department of Surgery, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX.
Castro
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Matson
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Fox
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D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000379:methods*; D007568:Jaw; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors