A cross-filed endotracheal intubation is usually applied to maintain single lung ventilation during both open and thoracoscopic tracheal resection and reconstruction. Herein, we report a case of thoracoscopic tracheal resection and reconstruction with interrupted ventilation via transoral endotracheal intubation in a patient with thoracic tracheal adenocarcinoma. Tracheal anastomosis was accomp...

There are circumstances when induction of general anesthesia followed by direct laryngoscopy and intubation is contraindicated. This case report describes and presents a protocol for a method of endotracheal intubation that combines the benefits of light wand and fiberoptic techniques. The patient was a 73-year-old male with a history of two cervical fusions. He was reported to be "unintubatabl...

Airway management in patients with complex maxillofacial injuries is a challenge to anesthesiologists. Submental intubation is a useful technique that is less invasive than tracheostomy in securing the airways where orotracheal and nasotracheal intubation cannot be performed. This procedure avoids the use of tracheostomy and bypasses its associated morbidities. A flexible and kink-resistant rei...

RATIONALE Hypoxemia is common during endotracheal intubation of critically ill patients and may predispose to cardiac arrest and death. Administration of supplemental oxygen during laryngoscopy (apneic oxygenation) may prevent hypoxemia. OBJECTIVES To determine if apneic oxygenation increases the lowest arterial oxygen saturation experienced by patients undergoing endotracheal intubation in t...

The aim of the study is to assess the possibility of intubation in each patient, the lyche to be difficult intubation, to find all the causes of the difficult intubation, to find and apply appropriate scales for difficult intubation, to estimate the frequency of difficult intubation. Endotracheal intubation is the basic reanimation procedure performed both in hospital and out-of-hospital settin...

Objective The purpose of this study was to assess the frequency of complications of endotracheal intubation (ETI) in neonates. Methods The newborns that were admitted and needed urgent or semi-urgent intubation were enrolled in this study over a 1 year period. Route for intubation in all cases were orotracheal. Cases were not routinely sedated or paralyzed. The patients were clinically and radi...

The goal of this study was to determine whether video laryngoscopy (VL) provides any advantage over direct laryngoscopy (DL) in first-attempt intubations. This was a controlled, randomized study of 120 medical students. Students were randomly assigned to either of 2 intubation groups, which used (1) DL (n=64) or (2) VL (n=56) with the Karl Storz C-MAC® video laryngoscope. Each student attempted...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The aim of this randomized, prospective and double blinded study is to investigate effects of different esmolol use on hemodynamic response of laryngoscopy, endotracheal intubation and sternotomy in coronary artery bypass graft surgery. METHODS After approval of local ethics committee and patients' written informed consent, 45 patients were randomized into three group...

Background: This study investigated the feasibility of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) performed under two-lung ventilation (TLV) and single-lumen endotracheal tube (SLET) intubation in patients with spontaneous pneumothorax.