title: Dental mirror for difficult nasotracheal intubation.
abstract: A patient with a previous surgical history of a cleft lip and palate repair and a pharyngeal flap pharyngoplasty was admitted for repair of mandibular prognathism. Following induction of anaesthesia, it was impossible to advance the nasotracheal tube into the oropharynx. Using a dental mirror and retrograde tracheal intubation equipment, under direct vision, the nasotracheal tube was finally advanced into the oropharynx.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Matot
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hevron
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Katzenelson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000601:surgery; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000601:surgery; D003762:Dental Instruments; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009960:Oropharynx; D011378:Prognathism / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation