Difficult airway management in the emergency room using an airway scope

Masaya Kitamura ,Hiroshi Dohgomori ,Kazufumi Okamoto

doi:10.22514/sv31.042008.9

Abstract

In the emergency room, some cases need adequate airway management. We present a patient whom we intubated using a new device. This device might be an option in airway management but some considerations should also be taken into account.

Highlights

Adequate airway management is important in all medical fields, especially in the emergency room, where airway problems are frequently encountered
In spite of additional antibiotics and incision of the lesions, his complaints worsened with time, and he was transferred to our emergency room
Under oxygen supplementation and ECG and oxygen saturation monitoring, we examined his inner mouth using the Airway Scope (Pentax Ltd, Tokyo, Japan)

Summary

Introduction

Adequate airway management is important in all medical fields, especially in the emergency room, where airway problems are frequently encountered. We present a patient whom we intubated using a new device. This device might be an option in airway management but some considerations should be taken into account. We encountered a man with severe dyspnea due to severe swelling of the neck associated with jaw lesions.

Results

Conclusion