Anesthetic Management for a Patient with a Silicon Tracheal T-tube.
10.4097/kjae.1986.19.5.517
- Author:
Doo Gab CHA
1
;
Sung Kyun LEE
;
Jae Hyun SUH
;
Sung Nyeun KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Anesthesiology, Catholic Medical School, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- MeSH:
Anesthesia;
Humans;
Larynx;
Silicones;
Trachea
- From:Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
1986;19(5):517-520
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
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.
