Acute airway collapse following thyroid surgery is a rare and potentially serious complication.
Diagnosis by conventional methods may be insensitive.
Difficulties may not be apparent until the patient becomes distressed after tracheal extubation, and this circumstance will worsen airway compromise.
In such a state, re-establishing the airway can become life-threatening. We describe the preemptive identification, physiologic manifestations, and management of the supraglottic and subglottic obstruction exemplified by this case.
2011-10-17
Eng.
Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien dNULLanesthesie
Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Can J Anaesth. 2011 Nov;58(11):1029-33
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