Foreign Body Obstruction Preventing Blind Nasal Intubation

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Foreign Body Obstruction Preventing Blind Nasal Intubation
Anesthesia Progress
Volume 53, Issue 2 (Summer 2006)

Simon Prior, BDS, MS, PhD
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

A healthy young male patient was scheduled for dental care under nasotracheal intubated general anesthesia. The presence of a plastic calculator key complicated the intubation. This case report describes the event and reviews some possible techniques for coping with an airway that becomes obstructed by a foreign object.

Keywords: Foreign body obstruction, Intubation

Received: August 11, 2005; Accepted: April 5, 2006

DOI: 10.2344/0003-3006(2006)53[49:FBOPBN]2.0.CO;2

Address correspondence to Simon Prior, BDS, 2147 Postle Hall, 305 West 12th Ave, Columbus, OH 43218; prior.20@osu.edu.

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