title: Anesthetic management of penetrating neck injury patient with embedded knife -A case report-.
abstract: Penetrating neck injuries can be a fatal event and they are difficult to manage for both surgeons and anesthesiologists. So, adequate preoperative evaluation is important to improve the patients' outcomes, but this can not be done for hemodynamically unstable or uncooperative patient. Here we present our clinical experience with a patient with a penetrating neck injury and who was hemodynamically stable, but she was uncooperative and the knife was still embedded in her neck. The surgical exploration and bronchoscopic examination were successfully done under monitored anesthesia care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Hyub
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Huh
authors.forename: Jin Hee
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Jun-Young
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Jae-Woo
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: Bong Jae
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Dong Ok
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Keon-Sik
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Kim