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Airway obstruction after trans-jugular liver biopsy: anaesthetic management
G J Smurthwaite1, M J Letheren
1Department of Anaesthesia, Manchester Royal Infirmary.
British Journal of Anaesthesia
|July 1, 1995
Abstract:
We describe the anaesthetic management of a patient who developed life-threatening airway obstruction after trans-jugular liver biopsy. An awake tracheal intubation was performed before anaesthesia was induced and an emergency tracheostomy carried out.