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Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: Jan 01, 2006

Foreign Body Obstruction Preventing Blind Nasal Intubation

BDS, MS, PhD
Page Range: 49 – 52
DOI: 10.2344/0003-3006(2006)53[49:FBOPBN]2.0.CO;2
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Abstract

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
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Copyright: © 2006 by the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology
Figure 1.
Figure 1.

View of vocal cords (situation recreated).

Figure 2.
Figure 2.

Removed object (dimension rule = mm).

Figure 3.
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