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Video assisted fiberoptic intubation for temporomandibular ankylosis
Pankaj Kundra1, A Vasudevan, M Ravishankar
1Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India. pankajkundra@vsnl.net
Abstract:
In the era of fiberoptics, securing of the airway under general anesthesia in small children with temporomandibular joint ankylosis without a flexible pediatric fiberoptic endoscope requires considerable skill. We describe the use of an adult flexible fiberoptic laryngoscope with a video camera system to visualize the glottis from one nostril while the tracheal tube was passed from the other nostril.
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