Awake nasotracheal intubation with Airtraq optical laryngoscope in two cases of oral brachytherapy

  • Miguel Castañeda Pascual Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Pain Therapy, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
  • Eva Turumbay Ramírez Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Pain Therapy, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
  • Alejandro Bilbao Ares Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Pain Therapy, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
  • Juan P. Jimeno García Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Pain Therapy, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
  • Mikel Batllori Gastón Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Pain Therapy, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
  • Esther Hijosa Basarte Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Pain Therapy, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Keywords: Optical devices, Brachytherapy, Airway management, Intubación, Surgery, Oral, Intratracheal
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Abstract

Nasotracheal intubation is usually the selected airway approach for oral and maxillofacial surgery to enable a free surgical field. It is an unusual intubation technique with a high success rate. However, it is not free from difficulties and complications in certain groups of patients, like those with oral, facial or cervical tumors.

The Airtraq® laryngoscope (Prodol Meditec, Vizcaya, Spain) is an optical device that facilitates tracheal intubation through the indirect visualization of the vocal cords, avoiding the need to align the oral, pharyngeal and laryngeal axis. It has shown to be useful in various difficult airway (DA) scenarios. There is a version of the device to assist with the nasal intubation technique.

Two oral brachytherapy treatment cases classified as DA are discussed; the nasotracheal intubation of the patient awake was successful using the Airtraq optical laryngoscope.

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Castañeda Pascual M, Turumbay Ramírez E, Bilbao Ares A, Jimeno García JP, Batllori Gastón M, Hijosa Basarte E. Awake nasotracheal intubation with Airtraq optical laryngoscope in two cases of oral brachytherapy. Colomb. J. Anesthesiol. [Internet]. 2015 Apr. 1 [cited 2024 Apr. 26];43(2):167-70. Available from: https://www.revcolanest.com.co/index.php/rca/article/view/475

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2015-04-01
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Castañeda Pascual M, Turumbay Ramírez E, Bilbao Ares A, Jimeno García JP, Batllori Gastón M, Hijosa Basarte E. Awake nasotracheal intubation with Airtraq optical laryngoscope in two cases of oral brachytherapy. Colomb. J. Anesthesiol. [Internet]. 2015 Apr. 1 [cited 2024 Apr. 26];43(2):167-70. Available from: https://www.revcolanest.com.co/index.php/rca/article/view/475
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Vol. 43 No. 2 (2015)
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Case Report / Case Series

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