Awake fibreoptic intubation for airway burns.
A young adult was admitted to a casualty department with severe burns sustained in a motor vehicle fire. His airway was initially patient, but in grave danger of obstruction due to inhalational injury. Conventional methods of airway management were unable to guarantee a patent airway and a novel approach is described.
Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Hospital Haslar, Gosport, Hants.
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D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000293:Adolescent; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002059:Burns, Inhalation / Q000628:therapy*; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male