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| Year : 2012 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 162-164 |
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A new low-cost method for difficult airway management in non-missile-penetrating cervical spine injury
Taopheeq B Rabiu1, Amos E Fadare2
1 Department of Surgery, Division of Neurological Surgery, Federal Medical Centre, Ido-Ekiti; Onward Specialist Hospital, Osogbo, Nigeria
2 Onward Specialist Hospital, Osogbo; Department of Anaesthesia, LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Correspondence Address:
Taopheeq B Rabiu
Department of Surgery, Division of Neurological Surgery, Federal Medical Centre, Ido-Ekiti
Nigeria
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5049.96329
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Accessing and maintaining the airway in penetrating cervical spine injury is a challenge for anaesthetists globally. This is more so in resource-poor settings, where advanced techniques for intubation in difficult airway situations are unavailable. We describe a new, low-cost, easily adaptable method of managing the airway used in a middle-aged man who sustained screw driver injury to the cervical spine with C4 Brown-Séquard syndrome. The deployment of readily available and cheap materials led to successful anaesthesia management of the patient. |
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