CASE REPORT
Year : 2012 | Volume
: 56 | Issue : 2 | Page : 162--164
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
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.
How to cite this article:
Rabiu TB, Fadare AE. A new low-cost method for difficult airway management in non-missile-penetrating cervical spine injury.Indian J Anaesth 2012;56:162-164
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How to cite this URL:
Rabiu TB, Fadare AE. A new low-cost method for difficult airway management in non-missile-penetrating cervical spine injury. Indian J Anaesth [serial online] 2012 [cited 2013 May 23 ];56:162-164
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