Abstract
One hundred fifty successive nonapneic patients requiring tracheal intubation had blind nasotracheal intubation performed. The primary indications for intubation were: drug overdose, 54 (36%); head injury, 36 (24%); COPD, 18 (12%); cerebrovascular accident, 15 (10%); congestive heart failure, 11 (7%); and other, 16 (11%). One hundred thirty-eight patients (92%) were successfully intubated using this technique.
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