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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.
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Keywords: Foreign body obstruction; Intubation
Copyright: © 2006 by the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology
Figure 1.
View of vocal cords (situation recreated).
Figure 2.
Removed object (dimension rule = mm).
Figure 3.
ASA difficult airway algorithm.
Contributor Notes
Address correspondence to Simon Prior, BDS, 2147 Postle Hall, 305 West 12th Ave, Columbus, OH 43218; prior.20@osu.edu.
Received: Aug 11, 2005
Accepted: Apr 05, 2006
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eISSN: 1878-7177
ISSN: 0003-3006
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