Airway Management in Penetrating Neck Injury
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A previously healthy 30-year-old male was shot at close range with a low caliber hand gun. A 911 call was placed immediately and paramedics were…
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Airway Management of a Patient with a History of Oral and Cervical Radiation Therapy
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 68-year-old male was found on CT to have a right lung nodule and paratracheal lymphadenopathy. He was then scheduled for diagnostic bronchoscopy and mediastinoscopy….
Airway Management of a Patient in Prone Position
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 35-year-old intoxicated male 179 cm tall and weighing 110 kg (BMI 34 kg·m−2) presents to the emergency room with a 12-inch hunting knife lodged…
Airway Management of a Patient with History of Difficult Airway Who Refuses to Have Awake Tracheal Intubation
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 46-year-old ASA III man is scheduled to have a total knee replacement. His past medical history is remarkable for severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with…
Management of a Patient with OSA for Total Thyroidectomy
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 55-year-old female with a BMI of 42 kg·m−2, presented for total thyroidectomy for a long-standing multinodular goiter. She appeared clinically euthyroid and her thyroid…
Airway Management of a Patient with Superior Vena Cava Obstruction Syndrome
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 55-year-old male patient with superior vena cava (SVC) obstruction secondary to a mediastinal mass is scheduled for bronchoscopy and mediastinoscopy. The patient weighs 120…
Airway Management in a Patient with Aspiration of Gastric Contents Following Induction of Anesthesia
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen On a Saturday morning, a 42-year-old male presents to the operating room for an urgent cystoscopy to remove a high ureteric stone. He is a…
Lung Separation in the Patient with a Difficult Airway
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 50-year-old male presents with a 6-month history of progressive paraparesis. He had sustained a fall at work about 12 months ago and has complained…
Airway Management of an Uncooperative Down Syndrome Patient with an Upper GI Bleed
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen This 33-year-old white female patient with Down syndrome (DS) (Figure 35–1) presented to the gastrointestinal (GI) service with a history of vomiting blood. You first…
Management of a Patient Admitted to ICU with Ebola Virus and Impending Respiratory Failure
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A previously well 50-year-old physician presented to hospital with fever, lethargy, nausea, and diarrhea. He had returned from Sierra Leone 5 days prior where he…
