| Anesthetic Management for a Patient with a Silicon Tracheal T-tube. |
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Doo Gab Cha, Sung Kyun Lee, Jae Hyun Suh, Sung Nyeun Kim |
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Department of Anesthesiology, Catholic Medical School, Seoul, Korea. |
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| Abstract |
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The silicon tracheal T-tube was designed to maintain an adequate tracheal airway as well as to provide support in the stenotic trachea which has been reconstructed.
Replacement of the T-tube was obviously undesirable following recent reconstruction of an unstable fracture of the airway. The loss of anesthetic gas through a T-tube while it is in place during anesthesia has been a problem.
This report describes a simple method of establishing a satisfactory airway in a patient with a tracheal T-tube, and reviews the anesthesia aspects of modern surgical reconstruction of the larynx and cervical traches. |
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