Anesthesia & Clinical Research
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Humberto S Machado

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• Case Report
  Emergent Surgical Airway Management in Bleeding Airway Tumor-Two Different Settings
  Author(s): Diogo Sobreira Fernandes, Rita Loureiro, Carlos Mexêdo and Humberto S MachadoDiogo Sobreira Fernandes, Rita Loureiro, Carlos Mexêdo and Humberto S Machado
  
  Expertise in surgical airway management is one of the key requirements in a difficult airway scenario. We describe two different surgical airway approaches in two similar scenarios of a bleeding airway. A 77-year-old man was proposed for an urgent femoral-popliteal bypass. During laryngoscopy, a friable vallecular tumor was recognized, resulting in a copious bleeding. After several unsuccessful attempts to establish a patent airway, a tracheostomy was performed in 10 minutes by a surgeon. A 43-year-old man with a known laryngeal epidermoid carcinoma, was admitted in the emergency room with an active bleeding airway, resulting in a ‘Can’t Intubate Can’t Oxygenate’ situation. A scalpel cricothyroidotomy was achieved in 45 seconds by an anaesthesiologist. In the presence of a difficult airway, the anesthesiologist must be prepared to establish an effective surgica.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-6148.1000615

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