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The anaesthetic management of a case of severe upper airways obstruction due to an enlarging subglottic benign polyp

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2006

B. Vadodaria  and
C. M. S. Cooper
B. Vadodaria
Affiliation:
Central Sheffield Universities Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
C. M. S. Cooper
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology, Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
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Abstract

The use of a newly developed aid to jet ventilation of the lungs, a modified Ben-Jet tube (The Hunsaker Monjet tube), is described in a patient with partial upper airway obstruction. This report highlights an unusual use of this device. The Monjet is a fluoroplastic, monitored, self-centring, fine bore tube that can be inserted from the mouth through to the subglottic region. It was originally developed to anaesthetize healthy patients without airway obstruction who were undergoing suspension microlaryngoscopy.

Keywords

respiratory insufficiencyairway obstruction
Type
Clinical Letter
Information
European Journal of Anaesthesiology , Volume 18 , Issue 11 , November 2001 , pp. 766 - 769
Copyright
2001 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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