title: [Use of StyletScope in a patient with airway injury].
abstract: A forty-year old man hanged himself and was transported to our hospital. On arrival his consciousness was clear but he showed dyspnea, dysphagia, and oral bleeding. Tracheal intubation was attempted but was failed and emergency tracheostomy was successfully accomplished. Tracheoplasty was soon scheduled under general anesthesia because of subcutaneous emphysema. An ordinary laryngoscope could not give a view of the larynx at all. Orotracheal intubation was accomplished with StyletScope. It worked very well for the destroyed trachea. StyletScope is a useful device for intubation, especially in difficult airway management.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Ogawa Red-Cross Hospital, Ogawa 355-0397.
authors.forename: Akihiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maeyama
authors.forename: Yasuo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Murakami
authors.forename: Kiyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Aikawa
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Miyao
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D058109:Airway Management / Q000295:instrumentation*; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008297:Male; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D013406:Suicide, Attempted; D014132:Trachea / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery*; D014139:Tracheostomy