title: Thoracic anesthesia and cross field ventilation for tracheobronchial injuries: a challenge for anesthesiologists.
abstract: Tracheobronchial injuries are rare but life threatening sequel of blunt chest trauma. Due to the difficult nature of these injuries and the demanding attributes of the involved surgery, the anesthesiologist faces tough challenges while securing the airway, controlling oxygenation, undertaking one-lung ventilation, maintaining anesthesia during tracheal reconstruction, and gaining adequate postoperative pain control. Amongst the few techniques that can be used with tracheobronchial injuries, cross field ventilation is a remotely described and rarely used technique, especially in injuries around the carina. We effectively applied cross field ventilation in both our cases and the outcome was excellent.
authors: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA.
authors: Sankalp
authors: 0000-0002-4204-7929
authors: S
authors: Sehgal
authors: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA.
authors: Joshua C
authors: JC
authors: Chance
authors: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA.
authors: Matthew A
authors: MA
authors: Steliga