title: Airway management of patients with tracheobronchial stents.
abstract: The use of tracheobronchial stents for compromised large airways is increasing. We provide a case series highlighting some of the complications of airway management in patients with tracheobronchial stents in situ and propose an approach for dealing with this potentially complicated situation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia and Cardiothoracic Intensive Care, St George's Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: B P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Madden
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sheth
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Crerar-Gilbert
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015607:Stents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014135:Tracheal Stenosis / Q000628:therapy*