PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Boker, Abdulaziz M.
TI  - A novel approach to manage patients with compromised airway. Videoscopic assisted retromolar intubation
DP  - 2013 Mar 01
TA  - Saudi Medical Journal
PG  - 308--312
VI  - 34
IP  - 3
4099  - http://smj.org.sa/content/34/3/308.short
4100  - http://smj.org.sa/content/34/3/308.full
SO  - Saudi Med J2013 Mar 01; 34
AB  - Aids to difficult airway management are essential for safe practice of anesthesia particularly for high-risk patients. This case series described a novel approach of combined use of complementing tools (videolaryngeoscopic assisted retromolar intubation) to enhance airway management of a subset of various high-risk patients with extremely difficult airway. It also addressed the rational for the combination of such approaches as well as the advantages and disadvantages of this technique. In all of the 4 patients, the use of the combined approach resulted in a successful intubation without the need for surgical airway. This technique showed many advantages making it possible to use in cases with life threatening airway obstruction.